A Course in Ocean Engineering

1.A Preliminary Survey. General approach. Environmental conditions. Wave forces. Behaviour of structures. 2. Random Motion. Time and frequency domain. Random phase. Gaussian waves. Moments and characteristic function. Spectra and correlation functions. Gamma distributions. Joint gamma distributions. Wave spectra. 3. Waves and Forces. Waves in a flume. Complex potential. Groups and energy. Wind-driven waves. Circular waves and towers. Morison's equation. Force on bracings. Beam models. 4. Extremes and Safety. Excursions and local maxima. Exponential gamma distributions. Extreme value distributions. Storm statistics. Long-term distributions. Joint long-term distributions. Fatigue. Safety. Appendices: A. Wind scale and wave charts. B. Table of gamma and poly-gamma functions. Index. (References are included with each chapter.)