Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2009-08-01

Journal:JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Included Journals:SCIE、EI、Scopus

Volume:131

Issue:3

Page Number:1-9

ISSN No.:0892-7219

Key Words:design engineering; failure analysis; fatigue; life cycle costing; offshore installations; reliability; vibrations

Abstract:In China, the oil and natural gas resources in Bohai Bay are mainly marginal oil fields, which freeze in the winter. It is necessary to build both ice-resistant and economical offshore platforms. However, risk is involved in the design, construction, utilization, and maintenance of offshore platforms as uncertain events may occur within the life-cycle of a platform. In this paper, the optimum design model of the expected life-cycle cost for ice-resistant platforms based on the cost-effectiveness criterion is proposed. Multiple performance demands of the structure, facilities and crew members, associated with the failure assessment criteria and evaluation functions of costs of construction, consequences of structural failure modes including damage, revenue loss, death, and injury, as well as discounting cost over time are considered. Different reliability analysis approaches involved in life-cycle cost evaluation, such as the global reliability under the extreme ice load, the dynamic reliability, and fatigue life induced by ice vibration, are studied. The proposed life-cycle optimum design formulas are applied to a typical ice-resistant platform in Bohai Bay, and the results demonstrate that the life-cycle cost-effective optimum design model is more rational compared with the conventional static design and the optimum dynamic design.