Column slamming loads on a TLP from steep and breaking waves

• Published in: Volume 1: Offshore Technology
• Main Authors: Vestbøstad, Tone M., Økland, Ole David, Lian, Gunnar, Stavang, Terje Peder
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Stress; Waves; Tension-leg platforms; Heidrun; Norwegian Sea; Arctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2485159; https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2017-61786

Previous model test campaigns of various large-volume platforms indicate that wave impact loads on vertical platform columns can become high in extreme sea states. Column slamming is a highly non-linear and complex problem and reliable estimation1 of Ultimate Limit State (ULS) and Accidental Limit S...