The volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) nature of environmental and operational conditions is still the major cause of marine accidents, with knock-on effects in terms of casualties, property damage, and marine pollution. Recognized as the most effective approach to navigate VUCA environments, risk-based assessment methods provide a solution to address challenges associated with health, safety, and environmental protection in extreme conditions and when accidents involving engineering structures and infrastructure occur. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the foundational principles, current practices, and cuttingedge trends in quantitative risk assessment and management for ships and offshore structures. With six parts encompassing a total of 35 chapters, it covers risk assessment and management for offshore installations, oil and gas leaks, collisions and grounding, and fires and explosions. Tailored for ship and offshore structural engineers, naval architects, as well as mechanical and civil engineers involved in advanced safety studies, this book is an invaluable resource for both practicing engineers and researchers in this field.
Preface Part I Principles of Risk Assessment and Management 1. Introduction to Risk Assessment and Management 2. Human Reliability Assessment 3. Risk-Based Inspection for Subsea Pipelines Part II Risk Assessment and Management for Offshore Installations 4. Risk-Based Decision-Making 5. Risk Assessment Applied to Offshore Structures 6. Formal Safety Assessment Applied to Shipping Industry 7. Economic Risk Assessment for Field Development 8. Risk and Reliability Analyses of Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading Units 9. Systematic Review of Floating Production Systems 10. Risk Assessment of Subsea Production System 11. Systematic Measures to Offshore Drilling Hazards 12. Deepwater Drilling: Problems and Solutions 13. Metocean Criteria for Internal Waves to Design Submarine Structures 14. Systems Numerical Modeling to Establish Metocean Criteria for Internal Solitary Waves Part III Risk Assessment and Management for Oil and Gas Leaks from Manifolds 15. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) 16. Analysis of the Principles of Valve Cavitation 17. Risk Assessment and Simulation of Oil/Gas Leakage Part IV Risk Assessment and Management for Colliosions And Grounding Events 18. Determination of Collision Design Loads 19. Analysis of Structural Crashworthiness in Supply Vessel Collision Events 20. Structural Crashworthiness Analysis in Collision and Grounding 21. Collision Risk Assessment & Management 22. Grounding Risk Assessment & Management 23. Practical Finite Element (FE) Method to Simulate Structural Crashworthiness in Ship Collision and Grounding Events Part V Risk Assessment and Management of Fires and Explosions 24. Leakage and Deflagration Accidents 25. Management of Risks Associated with Explosion Loads 26. Risk Management for Structural Failure Due to Explosions 27. Risk Management for Structural Failures Due to Fires 28. FEM-Based Analysis of the Progressive Collapse of Steel-Stiffened Plate Structures in Fire Events 29. Heat Radiation from Jet Fires 30. Risk Management for Fires 31. Risk Assessment and Management for Explosions Part VI Risk Assessment and Asset Integrity Management 32. Asset Integrity Management for Offshore Installations 33. Probability and Risk-Based Inspection Planning 34. Risk and System Integrity Level Assessment for Offshore Facilities 35. Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) for Offshore Installations
Dr. Yong Bai holds the position of Chair Professor at Zhejiang University (China) and is also an academician at the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He is a fellow of the US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the UK Royal Institution of Naval Architects. With an extensive background in offshore engineering structures and pipelines, Prof. Bai has held professorships at renowned universities, significantly contributing to the global offshore oil and gas industry through his publications and innovative achievements. Dr. Jeom Kee Paik, Professor of Marine Technology, the University College London (UK), is a National Special-Talent and chair professor at Ningbo University and Harbin Engineering University (China). An international fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and a fellow of various prestigious institutions, Prof. Paik’s research interests include nonlinear structural mechanics, advanced structural safety studies, limitstate-based design, and quantitative risk assessment and management. He is recognized for pioneering a proactive approach of digital healthcare engineering for aging ships, offshore structures, and seafarers working under hostile ocean environments or remote areas, using digital and communication technologies, AI, and machine learning.
