OFFSHORE MECHANICS
MOB AND MEGA-FLOAT
At-Sea Towing of Mega-Float Unit
Shoichi Hara, Kenji Yamakawa, Kunihiro Hoshino and Kazuhiro Yukawa
Assessment of the Construction Feasibility of the Mobile Offshore Base
William J. Bender and Bilal M. Ayyub
MOB Transit Draft Transient Dynamics and Stability
J. Falzarano, J. Cheng, S. Das, W. Rodrigues and R. Vassilev
Wave Drift Force and Moment on a VLFS Supported by a Great Number of Floating Columns
Masashi Kashiwagi
Simplified Equation for Estimating Added Mass Distribution over Large Floating Structures
Takuji Hamamoto, Shigehiro Sekine and Ken-ichi Fujita
An Efficient Time-Domain Analysis of Very Large Multi-Body Floating Structures
C.J. Garrison
Application of the Ray Theory to Hydroelastic Behavior of VLFS
Ken Takagi and Katsuyuki Kohara
Hydroelastic Analysis of a Very Large Floating Structure in Waves
H. Shin, H.Y. Lee, Y.S. Yang, H.S. Shin and I.K. Park
An Interaction Problem of Structure and Fluid Flow for a Half Cylinder Membrane Structure
Tatsuo Nishikawa, Koji Masaoka, Yusuke Tahara and Yoji Himeno
Hydroelastic Calculations of Viscous Flow Around a Cylinder-Spring System
ZhiXing Yu and YingZhong Liu
Nonlinear Analysis on the Interaction of Waves and Flexible Floating Structure
Xiaodong Liu and Shigeki Sakai
Air Gap Predictions of a Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) Using Linear and Non-Linear Hydrodynamic Analysis
Woei-Min Lin, Thomas Treakle, Kenneth Weems and Sheguang Zhang
SYSTEMS AND DESIGN
Comparative Fatigue Performance of Alternative Outer Hull Connection Details − Part I:
Procedure, Particulars, and Modeling
Brian Healy and Tom Thomsen
Comparative Fatigue Performance of Alternative Outer Hull Connection Details − Part II:
Results and Discussion
Brian Healyand Tom Thomsen
