COGE Information, Resources & Capabilities

Capabilities in:

• Ship Impact Damage and Residual Strength of Fixed and Floating Platforms Pushover Analysis under Extreme Environmental and Accidental Loading Buckling and Plastic Collapse of Plates, Shells and Tubular Frame Structures Hydrodynamic Testing and Analysis of Floating Structures
• Trend in Field Development Options

Specialist List:

Professor Beverley Ronalds:

• Buckling and plastic collapse of plates, shells and tubular frame structures Concrete Gravity Structures Fixed and floating offshore platforms Offshore structural reliability
• Platform ship impact and pushover analysis

Professor Beverley Ronalds and Dr Krish Thiagarajan:

• Environmental forces on offshore structures
• Floating production systems

Professor Beverley Ronalds and Dr Manolis Fakas:

• Decommissioning of offshore structures
• Relifing offshore structures

Dr Krish Thiagarajan:

• Deep water oil and gas production structures Deep water spar platforms Floating structure dynamics Flow visualisation Hydrodynamic model testing Moored structure dynamics Naval architecture Offshore hydrodynamics Spar buoy dynamics
• Tension leg platforms

Associate Professor Terry Edwards:

• Measurement of the physical and thermodynamic properties of natural gas and reservoir fluids Phase equilibria, phase behaviour calculations and modelling PVT studies of reservoir fluids
• Temperature, measurement and control

Dr Manolis Fakas:

• Aluminium structures offshore Fabrication and installation of offshore structures Fabrication and installation of large offshore structures in Australia Fixed offshore structures Hybrid structures Inspection planning for offshore structures Pre-installed foundations Relifing of offshore structures Structural reliability
• Wind loading prediction on offshore structures

Dr Jin-Zhu Xia:

• Computational wave hydrodynamics Damage stability analysis of marine vehicles Fluid-structure interaction of floating bodies Hydrodynamic design issues of FPSOs, drillships and offshore platforms Non-linear extreme and fatigue loads on ships and offshore structures
• Offshore risk assessment

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