Applicability of WaveWatch-III wave model to fatigue assessment of offshore floating structures

In design and operation of floating offshore structures, one has to avoid fatigue failures caused by action of ocean waves. The aim of this paper is to investigate the applicability of WaveWatch-III wave model to fatigue assessment of offshore floating structures. The applicability was investigated for Bluewaters’ FPSO (Floating Production,...

Comparative study of multiaxial fatigue methods applied to welded joints in marine structures

Marine structures are particularly prone to action of waves, winds and currents with stochastically varying composition, intensities and directions. Therefore, resultant stresses may cause multiaxial fatigue in specific welded structural details. For the assessment of multiaxial fatigue in welded joints, a wide variety of methods have been...

Full Scale Sloshing Impact Tests – Part 1

Universality of the Kondo effect in a quantum dot out of equilibrium

Suppression of the kondo effect in a quantum dot by external irradiation