Serviceability and safety design
criteria, including requirements to overall stability and strength as well as
evacuation and escape. Design rules for offshore structures including offshore
wind turbines. Overview of functional, environmental and accidental loads for
marine structures, with emphasis on wind - and wave induced loads. Methods for
calculating characteristic natural loads with emphasis on use of statistical
methods. Stochastic response analysis, long term response analysis, environmental
contour method. Nonlinear, time domain simulation of offshore structures and
wind turbines subjected to extreme environmental actions. Limit state design
checks. Structural resistance against accidental actions-; fires, explosions,
ship collision. Materials for marine structures. Alternative designs of
facilities for the offshore oil and gas industry
