Risk Assessment and Management for Ships and Offshore Structures

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.

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