Fatigue performance of steel catenary risers at the touchdown point

• Main Author: Saginayev Rakhymzhan.
• Other Authors: Low Ying Min
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49747
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The oil and gas industry is increasingly exploring and exploiting resources at remote offshore sites which creates a variety of problems. One of the new challenges aroused from moving into deeper waters is the design fatigue life of the Steel Catenary Riser (SCR). The hydrodynamic forces such as wav...