Risk, Reliability and Safety contains papers describing innovations in theory and practice
contributed to the scientific programme of the European Safety and Reliability conference …

The fatigue strength of offshore structures operating in ocean must be determined to ensure
their structural integrity. All the possible environmental conditions must be considered to …

This paper reviews methodologies for fatigue analysis with emphasis on ship unloaders.
Maintaining the performance of ship unloaders at a satisfactory level is essential for any …

The aim of this paper is to obtain the effect on the fatigue strength assessment of the different
geometrical variables involved in the design of the local cut-out, resulting from the …

First, this paper summarizes some of the theoretical and practical aspects of fatigue
assessments in shipbuilding. The basics of the spectral fatigue analysis procedure for ship …

This paper reviews the most common causes of failure in ship unloaders. The structural
forms employed in the design of ship unloaders and the characteristics of the loads acting …

A simplified analysis method was developed to evaluate the fatigue damage of an ice-going
ship under broken ice conditions. The ice resistance, which is available in the early design …

This paper presents advanced analysis procedures for the strength and fatigue assessment
of FPSO bilge keels which are developed under the joint development project (JDP) …

This paper presents results from an ongoing development project which aims at increasing
the knowledge for the estimation of extremes conditions and fatigue assessment of structural …

Since the 19th century hopper dredgers have been used for civil operations such as land
reclamation and water way maintenance. In the past 25 years a trend of scale enlargement …