Effects of Appendages and Small Currents on the Hydrodynamic Heave Damping of TLP Columns

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-42

  Troesch, A W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); DAMPING; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

EXTRAPOLATION; HYDRODYNAMIC HEAVE DAMPING; TENSION LEG PLATFORMS (TLP);

PRODUCTION PLATFORMS;

CURRENT; DAMPING; HYDRODYNAMICS; TENSION LEG OFFSHORE PLATFORM;

CURRENT FORCES; DAMPING; HYDRODYNAMICS; TENSION LEG PLATFORMS;

EID: 0032004478     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: 1528896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2829518     Document Type: Article

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