US industrial capacity and risk-based simulation for the construction of the mobile offshore base

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 5, Issue , 2001, Pages 127-135

  Bender, William J ^a   Blair, Andrew N ^b   Ayyub, Bilal M ^c  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction Scheduling; Mobile Offshore Base (MOB); Risk Based Simulation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING; MOBILE OFFSHORE BASES (MOB);

BRIDGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING; TRUSSES;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

EID: 0345603476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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