Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF OFFSHORE MOORING SYSTEMS | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | MOE509 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | MSc Oil & Gas and Offshore Engineering (Required Courses) - | ||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 7 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents |
Module A – Review of mooring systems and anchor linecomponents · Spread, multi-leg systems. · Single – point moorings concepts. · Mooring lines (composition of mooring lines,dimensions, etc.). · Buoys. · Anchors.
Module B - Static analysis and design of single- and multi-leg mooring systems · Static analysis of a single mooring line.Equations for elastic and in-elastic catenaries. Methods of solution. · Compositelines made up from segments of different materials. Use of buoys. · Static analysis of a multi – leg mooringsystem. · Design of a single mooring line according torules. · Design of multi-leg mooring systems.Engineering approaches. · Restoring forces of several types of mooringsystems (single- and multi-leg configurations, TLP type mooring). Exact andapproximate solutions. · Introduction to mooring line dynamics.
Module C – Wind and Current fields and forces · Wind velocityprofiles, gustiness, wind spectra. · Current velocityprofiles. · Mean wind and currentforces on ships and floating structures.
Module D - Higher-order body-wave interaction · Mean-, slowly- andfast-varying second-order exciting wave forces. · Exact and approximatesolutions.
Module E - Damping sources and methods for their evaluation · Mooring line damping. · Second - order wavedrift damping. · Friction and dragdamping on the structure. Engineering approaches.
Module F - Solution of motion equations of moored floatingstructures · Solutions in thefrequency – domain. · Solutions in the time– domain.
Module G - Synthesis and Case Applications · Case study – Project:Computer software supported analysis of a multi-leg mooring system. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
The taught part of course is delivered to the studentsby means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations.Lecture notes and presentations will be available through the web for studentsto use in combination with the textbooks. Lectures will besupplemented with a case – study project that will be carried out using thecomputer software XMOOR, suitable to analyse multi-leg mooring systems.Moreover, lectures will be supplemented with homework assignments to developcomputational skills on the various modules of the course. | ||||||||
Assessment methods and criteria |
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |