Numerical methods for calculating the crossing rate of high and extreme response levels of compliant offshore structures subjected to random waves

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Naess, A ^a   Karlsen, H C ^a   Teigen, P S ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extreme response; Mean crossing rate; Method of steepest descent; Second order stochastic Volterra model; Slow drift response

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

HORIZONTAL MOTION RESPONSE; MEAN CROSSING RATE; SECOND ORDER STOCHASTIC VOLTERRA SERIES; SLOW DRIFT RESPONSE; TENSION LEG PLATFORM;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEAN WAVE; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; RANDOM WAVE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33749249717     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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