Stochastic Response of Offshore Platforms

This CD-ROM deals with the statistical quadrization method.

This is where a polynomial expansion up to a quadratic order is used .

In this study the statistical quadrization method is developed.

A third order method termed statistical cubicization is proposed as an improvement to the linearization and quadratization methods.

The fatigue damage of offshore platforms is also investigated.

Numerical results in terms of response mean, variance, skewness, kutosis and fatigue damage are presented for both stiff and flexible fixed offshore structures.