INVESTIGATION OF GUYED TOWER AND ARTICULATED TOWER AS A DEEPWATER PLATFORM

This fmal dissertation is a continuation of the interim report which has concluded all
research works that have been done in the first and second part of this Final Year
Project (FYP). At the beginning of the project, author has been briefed by the
supervisor on the offshore technologies and offshore platform. From time to time,
author has conducted research from appropriate books and journals, and furthermore
gained related information regarding to this field through the course of Construction
and Maintenance of Marine Structures and Foundation. In Chapter 1, author has
presented background of the study, defined the problems associated and specified the
scope of the study. In Chapter 2, valuable information are presented where these are
the theory and literature produced by the expertise of the field. In Chapter 3,
methods that have been used for this research work are defined. In Chapter 4, some
of the analysis results done by the expertise were attached and nevertheless the
analysis that carried out by the author was also included. Author has conducted a
simple hydrodynamic analysis with the aid of Microsoft Excel. The analysis only
involved articulated tower due to limited information on guyed tower. In Chapter 5,
author has summarized all the works done and highlighted some recommendations
that appropriate to be adapted in Malaysian environment.