Optimized design of statically equivalent mooring systems Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Due to size limitations of wave basins worldwide it is necessary to employ statically equivalent mooring and riser systems to test floating oil and gas drilling, production and storage facilities to be deployed in deep and ultra-deep waters. Heuristic search techniques appear to be best suited for the design optimization because of the nonlinear behavior of the catenary mooring lines and risers, the large number of independent variables and constraints involved in the design, and the multi-dimensional objective function. A procedure for the optimized design of the statically equivalent mooring system using a Genetic Algorithm is investigated using, as an example case, a semisubmersible with a symmetric polyester mooring system.

authors

• Mercier, Richard

published proceedings

• OCEAN ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

• Felix-Gonzalez, I., & Mercier, R. S.

citation count

• 19

complete list of authors

• Felix-Gonzalez, Ivan||Mercier, Richard S

publication date

• January 2016

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• OCEAN ENGINEERING  Journal

keywords

• Design Optimization
• Equivalent
• Genetic Algorithm
• Mooring System
• Static Response
• Truncation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2015.11.002

start page

• 384

end page

• 397

volume

• 111