5

Helidecks and boat landing design

Chapter five will be a specific to cover the design of the helidecks, boat landing and riser guard. There is an examples that cover the load calculation in the helidecks. The design of the boat landing and riser guard is presented in this chapter.

Keywords

Helideck; MTOF; boat landing; riser guard; plasticity; shock cell

5.1 Introduction

The design of the auxiliary structure on the platform is mandatory, as the helideck and boat landing are essential for any offshore structure and their design depends mainly on the information that obtained from operations about the type of helicopter that is used now and will be future. For the design of the boat landing, it is important to define which boats that will be used ...

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