Curriculum and Syllabi

M.Tech Degree Programme

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES
(with effect from Academic Year 2010-2011)

Approved by DCC on 30/03/2010

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CALICUT
 Department of Civil Engineering
Curriculum for M.Tech Programme in
CIVIL - OFFSHORE STRUCTURES

Semester 1
Sl.
Code Title L T P/S C
No.
1 CE6301 Wave Hydrodynamics 3 - 3
2 CE6302 Stochastic Processes in Structural Mechanics 3 - 3
3 CE6303 Design of Offshore Structures 3 - 3
4 CE6391 Computational Lab 0 - 2 1
5 CE6392 Offshore Engineering Lab 0 - 2 1
6 ****** Elective 3 - 3
7 ****** Elective 3 - 3
8 ****** Elective 3 - 3
Total credits 13 (core) + 9 or 6 (electives)

Semester 2
Code Title L T P/S C
1 CE6311 Offshore Structural Systems—Modelling and Behaviour 3 - 3
2 CE6312 Marine Foundations 3 - 3
3 CE6313 Stability of Structures 3 - 3
4 CE6393 Offshore Structures Design Studio 0 - 2 1
5 CE6397 Seminar 0 - 2 1
6 ****** Elective 3 - 3
7 ****** Elective 3 - 3
8 ****** Elective 3 - 3
Total credits 12 (core) + 9 or 6 (electives)

Semester 3
Code Title L T P/S C
1 CE7398 Project - 8
2 ****** Elective 3 - 0 3
3 ****** Elective 3 - 0 3
Total credits 8 (core) + 0 or 6 (electives)

Semester 4
Code Title L T P/S C
1 CE7399 Project - 12
Total credits 12 (core)

Minimum Requirements:
1. A minimum of 60 credits have to be earned for the award of M.Tech degree in this programme.
2. Students to register for a total of six electives in three semesters together (Two or three electives each
in the first two semesters and a maximum of two in the third semester). Fourth semester is reserved for
project work only.
3. Industrial Training (2 credit) during summer term is optional

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 LIST OF ELECTIVES
Sl.No. Code Title Credits
1 CE6321 Ship Hydrodynamics 3

2 CE6101 Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 3

3 CE6102 Structural Dynamics 3

4 CE6121 Structural Optimisation 3

5 CE6122 Modelling, Simulation and Computer Application 3

6 CE6124 Analytical Dynamics 3

7 CE6322 Multibody Dynamics and Applications 3

8 CE6130 Structural Health Monitoring 3

9 CE6131 Structural Reliability 3

10 CE6225 Geographic Information System and Applications 3

11 CE6138 Advanced Finite Element Analysis 3

12 CE6139 Advanced Theory of Shells 3

13 CE6140 Theory of Plasticity 3

14 CE6323 Advanced Wave Hydrodynamics 3

15 CE6324 Dynamics of Floating Bodies 3

16 CE6111 Finite Element Method 3

17 CE6112 Theory of Plates and Shells 3

18 CE6133 Random Vibrations 3

19 CE6134 Engineering Fracture Mechanics 3

20 CE6136 Design of Plated Structures and Shells 3

* Any other subject offered in the Institute with approval from the Programme
Coordinator/Faculty Advisor

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 BRIEF SYLLABUS

CE6301 WAVE HYDRODYNAMICS

L T P Cr
Pre-requisite:- Nil
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Review of basic Fluid Mechanics - Introduction to Wave Mechanics – Wave generation by Wind - Small
Amplitude Wave Theory - Wave trains and Wave energy - Wave reflection, Wave refraction and Wave
diffraction - Breaking of waves - Finite Amplitude Waves –Higher Order Wave Theories –Sea as a
Stationary Random Process - Wave Spectral density - Wave Forces –Wave force on a Circular Cylinder,
Submarine Pipelines – Froude Krylov theory - Diffraction theory - Wave forces on Sea walls and
Breakwaters.

CE6302 STOCHASTIC PROCESSES IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS

L T P Cr
Pre-requisite:- Nil
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Basic Probability Concepts - Random variables - Functions of Random variables, Common Probabilistic
models - multivariate Models -Derived probability distributions and distributions of functions -Basic
Theory of Stochastic Processes -spectral decomposition of a random process, power spectral density
function-Some important random processes: Properties of Random Processes- Some models of random
processes in nature

CE6303 DESIGN OF OFFSHORE STRUCTURES

L T P Cr
3 0 0 3
Pre-requisite:- Nil
Total Hours: 42

Types of offshore structures and conceptual development - Materials and their behaviour under static and
dynamic loads - Various design methods and Code Provisions - Construction of jacket and gravity
platforms- Operational loads - Maximum wave force on offshore structure - Concept of Return waves -
Principles of Static and dynamic analyses of fixed platforms - Design of structural elements- Introduction
to tubular joints Parameters of in-plane tubular joints - Elastic stress distribution - Stress concentration -
Fatigue of tubular joints - Fatigue behaviour - Design of tubular joints as per API Code- Corrosion -
Offshore structure corrosion zones – Biological corrosion - Preventive measures of Corrosion - Principles
of cathode protection systems - Online corrosion monitoring - Corrosion fatigue.

CE6391 COMPUTATIONAL LAB

Pre-requisite: -Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42 0 0 2 1

Introduction to Engineering Software - Introduction to O/S–storage and time optimisation - General

purpose packages in Civil Engineering – Program Implementation

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 CE6392 OFFSHORE ENGINEERING LAB
Prerequisite:− Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42
0 0 2 1

Use of various transducers & pickups for static and dynamic measurements in ocean engineering - Data
transmission and analysis using DACs – Non Destructive Testing-
Ocean Wave modeling –Measurement of regular and random waves - Wave force measurements on
cylinders - Wave-current-structure interaction studies - Analysis of experimental results – response of fixed
and floating structures

CE6311 OFFSHORE STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS—MODELLING AND

BEHAVIOUR
L T P Cr
Pre requisite: Structural Dynamics
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Structures in the offshore environment - Description of typical offshore structures - Solid fluid interaction
parameters - Environmental forces - Dynamic characteristics and water depth capability of offshore
structures - Response of offshore structures - single and multi degree freedom systems – effect of
foundations - Coupled motions - Frequency domain analysis - Time domain analysis - Response analysis of
jacket structures - complaint structures – non linear response and stability characteristics- Freely moving
structures - Stability of submerged and floating structures - Motion of structure in response to excitation -
Mooring line forces - Motion analysis of floating vessels- Motion analysis in random waves - Low
frequency, High frequency oscillation - Wave drift forces - Springing forces - Non-linear sum forces -
Damping at low and high frequencies - Dynamic positioning.

CE6313 STABILITY OF STRUCTURES

Prerequisite: -Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42
3 0 0 3

Introduction:- Concept of stability – Static, Dynamic and Energy criterion of stability- Differential
Equation of Equilibrium of Beam-Columns –The Effect of Initial Curvature on Deflections – Interaction
formula- Elastic Buckling of Bars –Evaluation of Critical Loads of Column Using Determinant – Energy
Method –Buckling of Bars with Changes in Cross Section- Effect of Shearing Force on the Critical Load –
Buckling of Built up Columns – Various Empirical Formulae for Column Design- Stability of Rigid Bars
having Linear or Rotational Springs - Stability of System of Rigid Bars Using Equilibrium and Principle of
Stationary Potential Energy- Buckling of Frames:- Beams Subjected to Compressive Loads by Matrix
Approach and Stability Functions- Pure Torsion of Thin walled Bars of Open Cross-section – Lateral
Buckling of Beams in Pure Bending – Introduction to stability of Plates and Shells.

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 CE6393 OFFSHORE STRUCTURES DESIGN STUDIO
L T P Cr
Pre requisite: Design of Offshore Structures
Total Hours: 42 0 0 2 1

Design Principles of Jacket platform tower, Jack up legs - Seismic analysis of Offshore Platforms -
Offshore Platform Pile Foundations - Design of Concrete Gravity Platforms - Design of Raft Foundation-
Design of offshore pipelines - Static and dynamic analyses - Structural and positional stability - Pipeline-
soil interaction - Pipe laying methods like lay barge, bottom tow, floating, reel-ship & RAT methods -
Trenching of pipelines- Design of Compliant towers - Articulated towers - Guyed towers - Cylindrical
Buoys - Single point Moored Buoy systems - Statics of mooring lines without and with elasticity -
Dynamics of mooring lines - Design of mooring cables

CE6397 SEMINAR
Prerequisite: -Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42 0 0 2 1

Each Student shall prepare a Paper and present a Seminar on any topic related to the branch of
specialisation under the guidance of a staff member. The student shall submit typed copy of the paper to the
Department. Grades will be awarded on the basis of contents of the paper and the presentation.

CE6321 SHIP HYDRODYNAMICS

Prerequisite: - Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Sea environment - Waves on the sea surface - Wind- Current - Hull forms of different types of ships and
boats - Fluid pressure - Effects of ship on waves- Forward speed - Response of ship to wave excitation-
Ship distortion in still water - Stability of ships - Hydrodynamic forces - Transient Loading - Slamming -
Second order forces - Mean wave drift forces and moments - Slow drift forces in irregular waves - Slowly
varying oscillation due to wind - Sum frequency effects - Ship response to regular seaway - uncoupled and
coupled motions - Ship response to irregular seaway- Motion stabilisation - Effectiveness of motion
stabilisation.

CE6322 MULTIBODY DYNAMICS AND APPLICATIONS

Prerequisite: - Nil L T P Cr
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Kinematics of Rigid Bodies- derivatives of a vector in multiple reference frames- Coriolis acceleration-
Euler Angles- Momentum and Kinetic Energy of Rigid Bodies- Inertia Tensor and its Properties-
Newtonian Dynamics: Moment-of-momentum equations for general motion of rigid bodies- Lagrangian
Dynamics and Virtual Work- Introduction to Multibody System Dynamics- Systems of interconnected rigid
bodies- kinematics for general multibody systems- Vibration analysis of multibody systems- dynamics of
multibody systems with terminal flexible links- Lagrange’s equations of motion with constraints-
Computational Methods for the dynamic behaviour of the mechanical systems- treatment of holonomic and
nonholonomic constraints through various elimination and augmentation methods, extraction of data from
equations of motion, computational issues.

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 CE6323 ADVANCED WAVE HYDRODYNAMICS
L T P Cr
Prerequisite: Wave Hydrodynamics
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Random waves- Random processes, Probability distributions- Auto correlation and Cross correlation-
Applications- Spectral properties of ocean waves- Transformations of wave spectra to proposed frequency
spectra - Estimation of short term wave statistics based on wind data and wave data- Estimation of extreme
waves- Extreme value probability distributions - Methods of parameter estimation - Confidence intervals -
Design wave selection- Random wave forces- Morison equation with arbitrary wave spectrum and with
narrow band wave spectrum - Estimation of force coefficients - Effects of wave non-linearity - Random
forces on large bodies - Long term force distribution- Introduction to analysis of multidirectional waves.

CE6324 DYNAMICS OF FLOATING BODIES

L T P Cr
Prerequisite: Structural Dynamics
Total Hours: 42 3 0 0 3

Floating body dynamics – diffraction and radiation by large bodies –exciting and restoring forces – added
mass and radiation damping –drift forces – transient motion of floating bodies- Behaviour of systems with
time dependent characteristics- Non linear dynamics and instability of floating structures- Response
analysis of floating structures –multi body structures- Station keeping– Wave drift oscillation – Dynamic
positioning.