Wind Loads and Wind/Wave Interaction on Compliant Offshore Structures

This was a Joint Industry Project (JIP). The objective was to develop improvements in design guidelines and procedures related to the verification of compliant offshore structures subject to strong wind and wave environments. Three areas are of particular importance:

1) to use a dynamic model to develop an understanding of the action of storm winds and waves on compliant structures;

2) to provide an improved description of the low frequency components of the wind spectrum; and

3) to compare the response of the experimental models with their mathematical counterparts.