Title: High-Amplitude Low-Cycle Fatigue in Concrete Sea Structures
Date: September-October, 1981
Volume: 26
Issue: 5
Page number: 82-96
Author(s): Ben C. Gerwick, Jr.
https://doi.org/10.15554/pcij.09011981.82.96
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Abstract
Fourteen prestressed concrete structures are now in service as oil drilling, production, and storage platforms in the North Sea. Other fixed concrete structures are in service as offshore terminals, floating docks, floating terminals, breakwaters, and floating bridges in many parts of the world. These structures will typically be subjected to 2 x 108 cycles of waves during a normal service lifetime. At the same time, concepts are being developed for concrete structures in the Arctic regions, where they may be subjected to many extended periods of continuous crushing of sheet ice. One such structure, the Dome Petroleum's Tarsiut caisson-retained island, is currently under construction in the Canadian Beaufort Sea.
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