Ship Platform Collision Analysis and Damage Modelling

Collision between vessel and offshore platform usually result in damages to both of the structures. An incident may happen as the vessel losing its capability to control it movements due to environmental, electrical or mechanical reasons of the vessel. The effected members may experience large deformation damage causing the members to buckle cracks or distort which eventually may lead to progressive collapse of the platform. Even though the accidents related to the collision have been seen reduces to date, the accidents still remain as a highly risks event. There is a clear gap in knowledge in analysis of the ship-platform collision event to establish the significance and severity of these events. Therefore, a study on Ship-Platform collision was conducted to present the risk and frequency of a collision event to occur to an offshore platform. Available recorded data on ship-platform collision were utilised to identify the frequency and severity of these events.