Slow motion responses of compliant offshore structures

International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-126

  Cao, Peimin ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid wave model; Morison equation; Slow drift motion; Wave wave interaction

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

MORISON EQUATION; NEWMARK BETA METHOD; SPAR BUOYS;

PRODUCTION PLATFORMS;

COMPLIANT STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; OFFSHORE PLATFORMS; WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0031172027     PISSN: 10535381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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