... of the various wave and pit parameters on the diffraction characteristics of typical single and multiple pit systems. Contributed by the OOAE Division for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, August 2002; final...

..., “Environmental conditions and environmental loads,” Classification Note No. 30.5, Det Norske Veritas. NTS, 1999, “Action and action effects,” NORSOK Standard N-003, Rev. 1. Contributed by the OOAE Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript...

... 28 02 2003 biographies engineering Professor J. V. Wehausen John V. Wehausen was born on September 23, 1913, in Duluth, Minnesota, the oldest surviving son of George Wehausen and Elizabeth Vroman. He grew up in Oak Park, a suburb west of Chicago. He received his...

... and the results are presented. Contributed by the OOAE Division of the THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, June 2001; final revision, June 2002. Guest Associate Editor...

... Industry Consortium in Offshore Engineering with the following members: Amoco, Chevron, EPR, Mobil, Petrobras and Shell. The authors would also like to thank Eng. D. Donahue (the University of Michigan NAME Hydrodynamics Laboratory) and Engs. A.L.C. Fujarra (University of Sa˜o Paulo) and J.P.J...

... for varying set-point applying reliability-based weighting factors Based on the above parametric studies and numerical simulation of different control algorithms, the following observations were made: Contributed by the OOAE Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...

..., “Sizing of FPSOs and Shuttle Tankers to Develop a Deep Water Oil Field Offshore Brazil,” Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering , OMAE, Lisbon, Portugal. Parente, C. E., 1999, Private Communication. Sphaier, S. H., Fernandes, A. C., and Correa...

... of Mechanical Engineers for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, October 2001; final revision, January 2002. Guest Associate Editor: A. Fernandes. 01 October 2001 01 January 2002 22 10 2002 ships...

... OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, June 2001; final revision, November 2001. Guest Associate Editor: S. Liu. 01 June 2001 01 November 2001 22 10 2002 ships...

... and clay. It is shown that physical model testing is a viable procedure for studying prototype pull-in loads for relevant field situations. 2 Flowline connection sequence Contributed by the OOAE Division of the THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME...

...-distribution ii.  The expected largest amplitude within a single sea state Contributed by the OOAE Division of the THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OOAE Division, July...

.... Contributed by the OMAE Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the ASME OMAE Division, September 2001; final...

.... The work was funded primarily by the National Research Council Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) through an NRC/NSERC program together with industry funding and support from Lloyd’s Register, Marineering Ltd. and KaMeWa. We especially thank IMD for the use...

..., “Nonlinear Stochastic Models for Loads and Responses of Offshore Structures and Vessels,” Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. WAMIT 4.0, 1995. WAMIT: A Radiation-Diffraction Panel Program for Wave-Body Interactions-User’s Manual . Department of Ocean Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA...

... testing engineering 14 February 2000 19 July 2000 20 February 2001 Contributed by the Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Division and presented at the ETCE/OMAE2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 14–17, 2000, of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS . Manuscript...

... No. OMAE 99-6042. WAMIT, 4.0, 1995, “WAMIT: A Radiation-Diffraction Panel Program for Wave-Body Interaction—Users’ Manual,” Department of Ocean Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA. Naess , A. , 1986 , “ The Statistical Distribution of Second-Order Slowly Varying Forces and Motions ,” Appl...

... Generation and Active Absorption in a Numerical Wave Flume,” Proc., Seventh International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference , Honolulu, HI, 3 , pp. 85–91. Grilli , S. T. , and Horrillo , J. , 1997 , “ Numerical Generation and Absorption of Fully Nonlinear Periodic Waves ,” J. Eng...

... in the JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the OMAE Division, June 9, 2000; revised manuscript received November 28, 2000. Guest Associate Editor: S. K. Chakrabarti. 09 June 2000 28 November 2000 design for manufacture engineering natural gas...

.... The proposed solution is presented on vectorial form; it is exact and faster than a finite-element-based solution. Contributed by the OMAE Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING . Manuscript received by the OMAE Division, January 2000; revised manuscript...