Offshore Compliant Platforms. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

students in the disciplines of civil, mechanical, aerospace, structural, offshore, and ocean engineering; applied mechanics; and naval architecture will find this book very useful as a standard classroom reference for analysis and design of special structures. In addition, this book will be useful for practicing engineers and research scholars studying the response behaviors of structures with novel geometry under combinations of extreme loads.

      The experimental studies and numerical analyses discussed in the book are the outcomes of research work carried out recently by the authors and research scholars supervised by Srinivasan Chandrasekaran. All discussions, interpretations, and concepts conceived during the detailed research work carried out by the research scholar team are sincerely acknowledged. Administrative support extended by the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in preparing this manuscript is sincerely acknowledged.

      Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

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