Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations

1. Introduction to ship-shaped offshore installations; 2. Structural steel selection and construction; 3. Ocean environmental conditions; 4. Site–specific wave–induced hull girder loads; 5. Serviceability limit states; 6. Fatigue limit states; 7. Ultimate limit states; 8. Accidental limit states; 9. Mooring system engineering; 10. Sloshing impact engineering; 11. Seismic impact engineering; 12. Aircraft impact engineering; 13. Quantitative risk assessment and management; 14. Life-cycle corrosion assessment and management; 15. Lifetime healthcare and safe decommissioning; Appendix 1: Glossary of maritime engineering terms; Appendix 2: Scale definitions of wind, waves and swells; Appendix 3: Sea state data in various ocean regions; Appendix 4: Inverse first–order reliability method for drawing extreme wave contours; Appendix 5: Source listing of the FORTRAN computer program USAS-L; Appendix 6: Source listing of the FORTRAN computer program USAS-S; Index.