Fixed and jack-up platforms: Basis for reliability assessment

Marine Structures

Volumn 10, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 263-284

  Frieze, P A ^a   Morandi, A C ^b   Birkinshaw, M ^c   Smith, D ^c   Dixon, A T ^c  

^a Paul A Frieze and Assoc   (United Kingdom)

^b MSL Engineering Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); FAILURE ANALYSIS; JACK-UP RIGS; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

COMPONENT STRENGTH MODELING; RESPONSE SURFACE RELIABILITY METHODOLOGY;

UNDERWATER FOUNDATIONS;

OFFSHORE PLATFORMS-FIXED; OFFSHORE PLATFORMS-JACK UP; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0043226744     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0951-8339(97)00001-4     Document Type: Article

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