Reliability-based criteria for fixed steel offshore platforms

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 120-124

  Efthymiou, M ^a   Van De Graaf, J W ^a   Tromans, P S ^a   Hines, I M ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; RELIABILITY; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY MODELS;

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

OFFSHORE PLATFORMS-STEEL JACKET; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031149353     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: 1528896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2829053     Document Type: Article

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