...Xiaolu Chen; Zhiyu Jiang; Qinyuan Li; Ye Li; Nianxin Ren Environmental contour method is an efficient method for predicting the long-term extreme response of offshore structures. The traditional environmental contour is obtained using the joint distribution of mean wind speed, significant wave...

... WEC is assessed and shown to yield accurate results with the proper choice of percentile level for the extreme response. contour line method mooring analysis extreme response two-body wave energy converter As with floating structures in general, a floating wave energy converter...

... for ultradeepwater systems, the mean-squared responses yielded by the time and frequency domain methods are in close agreement. Practical design is concerned with the extreme response, for which the mean upcrossing rate is a key parameter. Crossing rate analysis based on statistical techniques is complicated...

...Arvid Naess; Oleg Gaidai The focus of the present paper is the extreme response statistics of drag dominated offshore structures subjected to harsh weather conditions. More specifically, severe sea states both with and without strong current are considered. The nature of the hydrodynamic forces...