Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Construction, Operation, Healthcare and Decommissioning

This guide provides safety engineering for ship-shaped offshore installations, covering design, construction, operation, lifetime healthcare, and decommissioning. It focuses on minimizing accidents and extreme conditions, with new chapters on earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and traditional events. It is invaluable for students and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 700 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive guide, extensively revised for the second edition, provides a thorough exploration of the safety engineering of ship-shaped offshore installations across all phases of design, construction, operation, lifetime healthcare, and decommissioning. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including additional types of offshore structures such as offshore power plants, as well as cutting-edge technologies and the latest advancements in the field. The primary focus of the text is on minimizing accidents and mitigating the consequences of extreme conditions, with dedicated chapters addressing earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, and traditional accidental events like hull girder collapse, collisions, fires, and explosions. This invaluable resource is particularly valuable for students embarking on their studies in this field, as well as practicing engineers and researchers seeking to stay abreast of the latest developments.

Weight: 1102g
ISBN-13: 9781316519608
Edition number: 2 Revised edition