This unit covers floating offshore structure terminology; types of environmental loading including waves, wind and current loads; deterministic and statistical description of waves; static and dynamic stability of floating structures; single and multiple degree of freedom rigid body dynamics of floating offshore structures including hydrodynamic mass, damping, restoring forces and natural periods; nonlinear system dynamics; continuous system dynamics; Morison's equation and diffraction theory; response of offshore structures to regular and random waves; slow drift response of floating structures; station-keeping methods; basics of mooring systems behaviour and analysis; flow-induced... -- Course Website
