Chakrabarti Subrata Kumar. Offshore structure modeling

World Scientific, 1994. — 470 p. — Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Volume 9Model testing has been performed through the history of mankind . Systematic hydraulic scale model testing goes back to the nineteenth century. However , even today modeling is partly an art as well as a science . In modeling, certain laws of similarity are followed. Several text books are available that deal with these similarity laws. In many cases, these laws can not all be satisfied in a model test. In these cases, it is necessary to selectively distort some of these scaling laws to perform the model tests . Although this distortion is somewhat of a compromise , valid modeling results can still be expected.Modeling laws
Model construction techniques
Model testing facility
Modeling of environment
Instrumentation and signal control
Modeling of fixed offshore structures
Modeling of offshore operations
Seakeeping tests
Data analysis techniques