Structural Design Principles -- Ultimate Strength -- Fatigue and Fracture -- Structural Reliability -- Risk Assessment.

pt. 1. Structural design principles : Introduction -- Wave loads for ship design and classification -- Loads and dynamic response for offshore structures -- Scantling of ship's hulls by rules -- Ship hull scantling design by analysis -- Offshore structural analysis -- Limit-state design of offshore structures -- pt. 2. Ultimate strength: Buckling/collapse of columns and beam-columns -- Buckling and local buckling of tubular members -- Ultimate strength of plates and stiffened plates -- Ultimate strength of cylindrical shells -- A theory of nonlinear finite lement analysis -- Collapse analysis of ship hulls -- Offshore structures under impact loads -- Offshore structures under earthquake loads -- pt. 3. Fatigue and fracture: mechanism of fatigue and fracture -- Fatigue capacity -- Fatigue loading and stresses -- Simplified fatigue assessment -- Spectral fatigue analysis and design -- Application of fracture mechanics -- Material selections and damage tolerance criteria -- pt. 4. Structural reliability: Basics of structural reliability -- Random variables and uncertainty analysis -- Reliability of ship structures -- Reliability-based design and code calibration -- Fatigue reliability -- Probability and risk based inspection planning -- pt. 5. Risk assessment: Risk assessment methodology -- Risk assessment applied to offshore structures -- Formal safety assessment applied to shipping industry -- Economic risk assessment for field development -- Human reliability assessment -- Risk centered maintenance.