A study on the correlation between structural and environmental data of an offshore platform

The purpose of this paper is that to examine some aspects of the existing correlations between structural and environmental data recorded by the monitoring system placed on the Vega-A offshore platform. The Vega-A eight-legs steel platform. The environmental data (wind and wave) and the structural ones (accelerations and strain gauge measurements) confirm the reliability of the monitoring system. Moreover the work shows that the collection of data forms a useful data bank to predict the design wave spectra and the structural behavior.