Offshore Structural Engineering : Reliability and Risk Assessment

Successfully estimate risk and reliability, and produce innovative, yet reliable designs using the approaches outlined in Offshore Structural Engineering: Reliability and Risk Assessment. A hands-on guide for practicing professionals, this book covers the reliability of offshore structures with an emphasis on the safety and reliability of offshore facilities during analysis, design, inspection, and planning.

Since risk assessment and reliability estimates are often based on probability, the author utilizes concepts of probability and statistical analysis to address the risks and uncertainties involved in design. He explains the concepts with clear illustrations and tutorials, provides a chapter on probability theory, and covers various stages of the process that include data collection, analysis, design and construction, and commissioning.

In addition, the author discusses advances in geometric structural forms for deep-water oil exploration, the rational treatment of uncertainties in structural engineering, and the safety and serviceability of civil engineering and other offshore structures.

An invaluable guide to innovative and reliable structural design, this book:

• Defines the structural reliability theory
• Explains the reliability analysis of structures
• Examines the reliability of offshore structures
• Describes the probabilistic distribution for important loading variables
• Includes methods of reliability analysis
• Addresses risk assessment and more

Offshore Structural Engineering: Reliability and Risk Assessment

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran is a professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He has more than 25 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience. By invitation of the Ministry of Italian University Research, he was a visiting fellow to the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, for a period of two years. He has published approximately 140 research papers. He is a member of many national and international professional bodies and has delivered many invited lectures and keynote addresses at international conferences, workshops, and seminars organized in India and abroad.