Title: FLOATING CONCRETE STRUCTURES: THE NEED FOR PROPER DESIGN

Author(s): Tor Ole Olsen

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 328

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 10.1-10.14

Keywords: Buoyancy, conceptual design, detail design, floating concrete structures

DOI: 10.14359/51711154

Date: 9/12/2018

Abstract:

Professor Michael P. Collins has always stressed the need for proper and consistent design. He emphasized the need for understanding the overall structural response, and to apply first principles. I remember, from the University of Toronto many years back, his emphasis on free body diagrams, a tool for establishing an overview of the stress resultants in the structure.

For floating concrete structures, these aspects are even more important than for land based structures, as over conservatism may lead to a structure that does not float.

Structures in the sea will be increasingly important in the future.