Proceedings of the 16th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress, ISSC'06, Univertsity of Southampton, UK, 20-25 August 2006, Edited by P.A. Frieze and R.A. Shenoi, Volume 1, ISBN: 085432 8556 (summary)

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PREFACE

This volume contains the eight Technical Committee reports presented and discussed al the ló**" Intemational Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2006) in Southampton. UK, 20-25 August 2006.

Volume 2 contains the reports of the Specialist Committees and Specialist Task Committees whilst Volume 3 contains the Report on the Congress, the Invited Lectiues and the discussions of all the reports together with the chainnen's replies.

The Standing Committee o f the 16"* International Ship and Offshore Stmctures Congress comprised: Chairman: P A Frieze BBoon W-C Cui W Fricke C D Jang T Jastrzebski J J Jensen H O Madsen A E Mansour M Olagnon N G Pegg R Porcari YSumi

On behalf of the Standing Committee, we would like to thank Dstl, Lloyd's Register and the University of Southampton for sponsoring ISSC 2006.

Secretary R A Shenoi P A Frieze Chairman R A Shenoi Secretary Southampton, June 2006

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Preface

REPORT OF COMMITTEE I . l :

REPORT OF COMMITTEE 1.2;

REPORT OF COMMITTEE II. I :

REPORT OF COMMITTEE 11,2:

REPORT OF COMMITTEE III. 1

REPORT OF COMMITTEE III.2

REPORT OF COMMITTEE IV. I

REPORT OF COMMITTEE IV.2:

C O N T E N T S ENVIRONMENT I LOADS 83 QUASI-STATIC RESPONSE 171 DYNAMIC RESPONSE 257 ULTIMATE STRENGTH 353

FATIGUE AND FRACTURE 439

DESIGN PRINCIPLES A N D 521 CRITERIA

DESIGN METHODS 601

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