This book presents the various types and forms of marine structures and the functions and limitations of different offshore platforms, and describes their potential environmental loads. It discusses the ultimate load design, plastic design, shear center, and theories of failure, leading to a detailed understanding of plastic design and dynamics. It also explains the details of fluid-structure interaction as well as fracture and fatigue. It emphasizes basic concepts through simple illustrative examples and exercises, and explains design methodologies and guidelines through example structures.

Offshore Structures and Environmental Loads. Ultimate Load Design. Fluid-Structure Interaction. Reliability of Marine Structures. Fatigue and Fracture. References.