Calculations

With continuous development in the Oil & Gas industry, there is an increase of transports of heavier and bigger structures. As these transports tends to reach the structural limits of heavy transport vessels there is a growing demand to perform more detailed transport analyses.

This addresses developments in heavy transport design calculations from a theoretical and an operational perspective. Both view-points contribute to a more detailed analysis of the transports and increase the safety level.

Developments in heavy transport design conditions from theoretical as well as operational perspective are described. Improvements are gained by a more detailed calculation method, which is here defined as theoretical improvement. Both theoretical as operational improvements lead to more insight and more accurate analyses in the heavy transport engineering.

For transports of large structures, especially where deflection of the heavy transport vessel or cargo may be of importance, it is appropriate to perform extended structural analyses with loads defined by engineering transportation analysis.