Response Prediction Techniques for Risers in Sheared Currents

This project was a Joint Industry Project (JIP), in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant Program. The objective was to assess the global static and dynamic behavior of complaint risers including current shear flow effects and to evaluate the effects of the principal engineering parameters on the behavior of such systems. The focus was on deriving unified analytical solutions for the linear dynamic response of compliant risers to permit the designer to discern the effects of principal variables and to evaluate alternative concepts efficiently. Fatigue life estimation verification was the goal of the project.