Syllabus

Course Prerequisite: UG Level course on Foundation Engineering

Module I: The Ocean Environment (6 hours)
Waves, Currents, Winds, Sea bed Geology, Earthquakes, Floating ice.

Module II: Common Structural Systems (8 hours)
Jacket or Tension leg structures, Tower, Caissons, Concrete gravity platforms, Steel, Gravity platforms, FPSOspar platforms, Hybrids, Compliant Structures, and Factors governing selection.

Module III: Hydrodynamic loading of large offshore structures (8 hours)
Diffraction theory, Regions of validity, Application, Linear dynamic analysis.

Module IV: Foundations of Offshore Structures (8 hours)
Pile foundations, Prediction of axial pile capacity, Bearing capacity of footings, settlement of foundations.

Module V: Offshore construction (6 hours)
Drilling techniques, logging methods, location of drill sites, completion of walls, and marine survey.

To provide students with an understanding of the various parameters associated with the Ocean Environment.

To understand the common structural systems associated with the Ocean Environment.

To learn the Hydrodynamic loading of large offshore structures.

To design the Foundations of Offshore structures and provide solutions to Offshore construction.

CO1: The students will be able to understand the various parameters associated with the Ocean Environment.
CO2: The students will learn the common structural systems associated with the Ocean Environment.
CO3: The students will be able to learn the Hydrodynamic loading of large offshore structures.
CO4: The students will be able to design Foundations of Offshore structures.
CO5: The students will be able to provide solutions to Offshore construction.

T.H. Dawson, Offshore Structural Engineering, Prentice Hall

American Petroleum Institute, 2. Recommended practice for Planning, Designing, and Construction of Fixed Offshore Structures, American Petroleum Institute

Norske Veritas, Rules for the Design, Construction and Inspection of Fixed Offshore Structures, Det Norske Veritas

Turgut Sarpkaya, Wave Forces on Offshore Structures, Cambridge University Press