Table of Contents

Preface.

Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Structures in the Offshore Environment (J. Wilson).

Structure-Environmental Force Interactions (J. Wilson).

Deterministic Descriptions of Offshore Waves (B. Muga).

Wave Forces on Structures (J. Wilson).

Deterministic Responses for Single Degree of Freedom Structures (J. Wilson).

Statistical Descriptions of Offshore Waves (B. Muga).

Statistical Responses for Single Degree of Freedom Linear Structures (J. Wilson).

Multi-Degree of Freedom Linear Structures (J. Wilson).

Applications of Multi-Degree of Freedom Analysis (J. Wilson).

Continuous Systems (J. Wilson).

Behavior of Piles Supporting Offshore Structures (L. Reese).

Conversion Table.

Index.

About the Author

JAMES F. WILSON, PHD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. He has earned numerous awards and authored several hundred papers, along with five previous books.

BRUCE J. MUGA, PHD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. During his career, he worked with the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme, California.

LYMON C. REESE, PHD, is the Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair Emeritus and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. He is also principal at Ensoft, Inc., a distributor of engineering software, and a consultant with Lymon C. Reese & Associates, a subsidiary of Ensoft.