Fixed Offshore Platforms: Structural Design for Fire Resistance


In the event of a major fire incident, it is our principal objective to be able to maintain the fixed offshore platforms integrity for an adequate period of time to perform critical task such as platform shutdown, fire-fighting response, disembarkation, etc, whiles allowing evacuation of operation and maintenance personnel. Protecting people from injuries is linked to designing structures. Structures should be designed to withstand loads without creating dangerous fragments or falling down during any fire incident. The fixed offshore platform must be able to sustain its safety functions for a required performance time, if subjected to fire and hydrocarbon explosion damage. This book

  • Provides an understanding of structural design of a fixed offshore platform to withstand fire and explosion.
  • Calculation of design load conditions such as fire and hydrocarbon explosion load on an offshore facility.
  • Discusses the design methodology and design requirements.
  • Addresses important issues of structural performance related to fire and explosion resistance.
  • Explains how to perform simple fire resistance calculations for structural steel in accordance with the requirement of Eurocode.
  • Highlights structural performance evaluation of an offshore platform under realistic fire conditions i.e robustness, residual strength, ductility, deflection criteria, etc.
  • Covers topics in structural analysis, impact analysis, lifting analysis, transportation analysis, fatigue analysis, dynamic analysis, foundation design, fire resistance, fire design of structural connections, fire protection materials, Fire, explosion and blast effect analysis, fire safety, etc.
  • The content of this book is applicable to offshore structure design particularly fixed offshore platforms. It shows engineers what analysis is required and how it should be applied.
  • Particularly suited to offshore design engineers, technical managers, structural and civil engineers in the oil and gas industry.
  • Presents design techniques for structural integrity for platforms subjected to fire and/or explosion damage.
  • Explains how to best assess structures for fire endurance, and the overall general safety of fixed platforms.
  • You can click on the link below to read the full book online.
    https://rdcu.be/4fxt
     


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