FLOATING OFFSHORE STRUCTURES


General Info


  • Course Title: Floating Offshore Structures
  • Course Code: NAOME1351
  • Semester: 8th
  • Course Type: S.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 5 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 6
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NA191/
  • Professors: Th. Mazarakos


Course Content / Syllabus


Lectures:
Types of offshore structures (jackup, semisubmersible, Tension Leg Platforms, ect). Description of the wave environment (wave, wind, current). Wave theories. Evaluation of wave loading on slender marine structures in real fluids (MorisonType Loading). Evaluation of the wave loading and motions of large-volume structures. Evaluation of wave loading and motions. Hydrodynamic mass. Results for typical offshore structures. Applications.
Laboratory: Free - fixed floating offshore structures experiments (wave run up, motions, etc.).


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎