Risk analysis of jackup rigs

Increasing attention has been focussed in the North Sea and elsewhere on the quantification of the risks of working in a hazardous enviroment: the offshore world. The perception of risk with respect to mobile rigs has often been vague and uninformed. This paper attempts to put the risks with respect to jackup rigs into perspective by quantifying them and comparing them to other risks.

This paper contains a few risk comparisons with fixed platforms, semi-submersibles, and drillships. Historical casualties are used in an example to show how a change intended to make an operation safer, may result in the opposite effect.

Examining risks from losses due to environmental overload, the conclusion is reached that jackups are very safe structures: there appears to be no jackup, in the timeframe examined, that has been lost because of a deficiency in the calculation methods currently in use by knowledgeable experts.     

自升式钻井平台倾斜试验方法研究

目前,船舶倾斜试验技术已经比较成熟,但海洋平台的倾斜试验方法和试验标准还不完善.本文采用Sesam软件模拟配重块法和悬臂梁法两种自升式平台倾斜试验方法,可为实船提供必要的参考数据和具体的试验步骤.分析了两种方法的适用范围以及优缺点,提出了适用于自升式钻井平台的倾斜试验方法和计算过程.结果表明,运用Sesam软件进行数值试验可以有效减少倾斜试验的工作量,并取得更准确的结果.     

Some aspects of the structural design of a mat foundation for various soil conditions

There are several important structural design parameters in the analysis of a mat type structure for a jackup mobile offshore drilling unit. These consist of dimensions for the mat, soil foundation types, and structural loads. Methods for determining the proper dimension of the mat structure, modeling the structure and its loading cases, modeling the soil conditions and a method for identifying critical load cases for each element and load case is presented. By using a database approach for the finite element output for all of the various loading cases, a rational approach is presented which solves the problem of sorting and analyzing all of the elements and load cases, ensuring that all are included and none of the critical cases are missed.     

桩基托换技术在广州地铁工程中的应用

以广州地铁某盾构隧道穿越桥梁时桩基托换工程为例,详细介绍了既有桥梁桩基托换施工方法、顶升工法、施工监测等技术应用情况,为在复杂施工环境和复杂地质条件下,进行既有桥梁桩基托换提供技术参考。