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  title info:
    title: Assessment of seismic risk for subsea production systems in the Gulf of Mexico
  name:
    name part: Brown, Laura Ann
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hueste, Mary Beth D. (Mary Beth Deisz)
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Bracci, Joseph M.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
  abstract: The number of subsea production systems placed in deepwater locations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has increased significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. Currently, API-RP2A (2000 a,b) designates the GOM as a low seismic zone, and thus does not require seismic effects to be considered during the design process. However, there have been a number of seismic events with Richter magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.9 that have occurred in this region. As a result, questions have been raised regarding the seismic performance of deepwater subsea systems. This thesis presents an analytical parametric study where a prototype subsea structure was selected based on a survey of subsea systems. The baseline analytical model consisted of a single casing embedded in soft clay soils, which supported a lumped mass at a cantilevered height above the soil. A number of the model characteristics were varied in the parametric study to simulate the structural response of a range of subsea structures. This thesis discusses the impact of API-RP2A Zone 1 and 2 design seismic demands for the performance of subsea structures. The results from the subsequent analyses show that the stresses and deflections produced by the Zone 1 and 2 peak ground accelerations fall within the allowable limits.
  note: by Laura Ann Brown.
  note: "Major Subject: Civil Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 30, 2004.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. S. Texas A&M University 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: seismic risk
  subject:
    topic: earthquake
  subject:
    topic: subsea
  subject:
    topic: Gulf of Mexico
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/30
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 040617
    record change date: 20151026065458.0
    record identifier: in00001838330