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.