Your Hosts Table of Contents - Events

Structures, Safety and Reliability
2-4 Extreme and Freak Waves
Tuesday July 3 Queluz I | 10:30–12:00
Session Chair: Alexander Babanin, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Are Basin Waves Different From Field Waves? OMAE2012-83468
Bas Buchner 1 George Forristall 2
1. MARIN, Wageningen, Netherlands; 2. Forristall Ocean Engineering, Inc., Camden, ME, USA
Investigating the Use of the Hilbert-Huang Transform
for the Analysis of Freak Waves OMAE2012-83569
Jan Maris 1 Marios Christou 2 Rene Huijsmans 1
1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands;
2. Shell Projects & Technology, Rijswijk, Netherlands
What Do we Not Know About Freak Waves in the Ocean
and Lakes and Where to Go from Here? OMAE2012-84260
Paul C. Liu 1 Chin H. Wu 2 Adam J. Bechle 2 Hsuan S. Chen 3 Keith MacHutchon 4
1. NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 2. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; 3. National
Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, China; 4. Coastal Marine Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
Extreme Values of Environment Parameters Under
Super Typhoon in South China Sea OMAE2012-83536
Chenfeng Li 1 Huilong Ren 1 Donghao Xu 2 Ji Zeng 1 Xiaoyu Li 1
1. Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China;
2. Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China
Structures, Safety and Reliability
2-9 Reliability of Moorings and Risers – II
Tuesday July 3 Queluz II | 10:30–12:00
Session Chair: Ying Min Low, Nanyang Technological University,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Singapore
Vibration Decay Along Deepwater Moorings with Complex Geometry
and Configuration, as a Tool for Truncation OMAE2012-83660
Alex Argyros 1 Robin S. Langley 1 R.V. Ahilan 2
1. Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom;
2. GL Noble Denton, London, United Kingdom
Calibration of Partial Safety Factors for Suction Caissons in Connection
to Catenary and Taut-Leg Mooring Systems OMAE2012-83498
Francisco L. Silva-González 1 Ernesto Heredia 1 Celestino Valle-Molina 2
Jorge Sanchez-Moreno 1 Robert Gilbert 3
1. Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico; 2. Instituto Mexicano del
Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico; 3. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Calibration of Design Conditions Based on Long Term
Top Tension for Catenary Risers OMAE2012-83506
Fernando Jorge Mendes de Sousa 1 Luis Sagrilo 2 Edison Castro Prates de Lima 1 Arnaldo Papaleo 3
1. Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 2. Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro - Civil Engineering Program of COPPE, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 3. Petrobras/CENPES/TS, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Gulf of Mexico
Mooring Chain at 6000 Feet Depths OMAE2012-84067
Jonathon D. Miller P.E. 1 Brett J. Warren 2 Luc G. Chabot 3
1. InterMoor Inc., Morgan City, LA, USA; 2. InterMoor Inc., Houston, TX,
USA; 3. Murphy Oil & Exploration Company, Houston, TX, USA
Materials Technology
3-4 Fatigue Crack Growth Performance
Tuesday, 10:30–12:00
Tuesday July 3 El Pardo I | 10:30–12:00
Session Chair: Paulo Gioielli, ExxonMobil Development, USA
Session Co-Chair: Xiaozhi Wang, ABS, USA
Improvement of Fatigue Crack Growth Simulation Based on the Strip Yield
Model Considering the Strain Hardening Effect of Materials OMAE2012-83664
Koji Gotoh, Keisuke Harada
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Fatigue Crack Growth Rates of Mooring Chain Steels OMAE2012-84223
Yanhui Zhang 1 Nick Zettlemoyer 2 Peter Tubby 1
1. TWI Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2. ExxonMobil Development Co., Houston, TX, USA
Effect of Tap Water or Soap Solution on Fatigue Crack
Growth in Welded Steels OMAE2012-83087
Radu Dimitriu, Stephen Maddox
TWI Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Pipeline and Riser Technology
4-4 Design and Analysis – IV
Tuesday July 3 Louvre I | 10:30–12:00
Session Chair: Gus Jeans, Oceanalysis Ltd, United Kingdom
Session Co-Chair: Renato Silva, Petrobras, Brazil
Optimization Study on Pump Series Setting of
Deep Sea Mining Pipeline OMAE2012-83708
Kang Yang, Qi Yang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
A Surrogate Model for Evaluation of Maximum Normalised Load Factor in
Moving Load Model for Pipeline Spanning Due to Slug Flow OMAE2012-83746
Ibrahim Sultan 1 Ahmed Reda 2 Gareth Forbes 3
1. School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering, University of
Ballarat, VIC,Australia, Ballarat, VIC, Australia; 2. Intecsea/Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia; 3. Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
Effect of Mud Shedding on Riser Anti-Recoil Control
at Emergency Disconnect OMAE2012-83764
Songcheng Li 1 Mike Campbell 1 Hugh Howells 2 Simeon Powell 1
1. 2H Offshore Inc, Houston, TX, USA; 2. 2H Offshore Engineering Ltd, Woking, United Kingdom
Detailed Analysis of Clump-Weight Interference
with Subsea Pipelines OMAE2012-83869
Kristian Maalø 1 Hagbart S. Alsos 1 Svein Savik 2
1. Reinertsen AS, Trondheim, Norway; 2. Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
www.asmeconferences.org/omae2012 | 37