Stochastic Dynamics of Marine Structures

For students and professionals, this covers theory and methods for stochastic modelling and analysis of marine structures under environmental loads.

Arvid Naess (Author), Torgeir Moan (Author)

9780521881555, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 October 2012

422 pages, 180 b/w illus.
25.7 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 1.02 kg

"This book is meant to serve as a text for students and a reference for professionals on the basic theory and methods used for stochastic modeling and analysis of marine structures subject to environmental loads." -Mathematical Reviews

Stochastic Dynamics of Marine Structures is a text for students and a reference for professionals on the basic theory and methods used for stochastic modelling and analysis of marine structures subjected to environmental loads. The first part of the book provides a detailed introduction to the basic dynamic analysis of structures, serving as a foundation for later chapters on stochastic response analysis. This includes an extensive chapter on the finite element method. A careful introduction to stochastic modelling is provided, which includes such concepts as stochastic process, variance spectrum, random environmental processes, response spectrum, response statistics and short- and long-term extreme value models. The second part of the book offers detailed discussion of limit state design approaches, fatigue design methods, the equations of motion for dynamic structures and numerical solution techniques. The final chapter highlights methods for prediction of extreme values from measured data or data obtained by Monte Carlo simulation.

1. Preliminaries
2. Dynamics of single-degree-of-freedom linear systems
3. Dynamics of multi-degree-of-freedom linear systems
4. The finite element method
5. Stochastic processes
6. The variance spectrum
7. Random environmental processes
8. Environmental loads
9. The response spectrum
10. Response statistics
11. Statistics for nonlinear problems
12. Short-term and long-term extremes
13. Dynamic load effects for design checks
14. The equations of motion
15. Numerical solution techniques
16. Monte Carlo methods and extreme value prediction.

Subject Areas: Marine engineering [TTS], Structural engineering [TNC], Technology, engineering, agriculture [T], Earth sciences [RB], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R], Mathematical modelling [PBWH]