Advanced Marine Technology: Stable Floating Platform Project.
Abstract
The study developed designs and demonstrated techniques for coupling large platform sections together at sea. Most recent investigations of feasibility of construction at sea of a large airfield, e.g. 6000 feet long, have employed a barge to haul stable column legs, cross members and associated coupling equipment to a construction site, flip with load from horizontal to vertical, then separate and, finally assemble with the barge in vertical mode serving as a work vehicle part of the platform. Two major conclusions are drawn from the investigations: First that assembly in the open ocean of large floating platforms employing stable columns or spar buoys is feasible; Second, the flippable barge employed in most recent large platform construction has considerable potential as an ocean engineering support vehicle. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0783097
Entities
People
- F. N. Spiess
Organizations
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography