Basic principles are clearly established using several different complementary approaches. The primary parameters that influence riser behavior are identified, and their influence is illustrated using 17 Excel files, provided on an accompanying CD-ROM, which readers are able to use with their own data. The files are intended primarily to allow readers to confirm the validity of statements made in the text, but they can also be used to for the simplified analysis of particular riser problems.

This book is a must-own, for anyone who deals with riser design and analysis or with riser technology, from the classroom student to the offshore drilling platform engineer.

Features and Benefits:

• Clear understanding of the principal parameters that influence riser behavior with their mode of influence.
• Clear procedures for analyzing highly complicated problems such as those involving multi-barrier risers of anisotropic materials subjected to changes of fluids, pressures, and temperatures.
• Means of making rapid �ballpark� analyses before and after running sophisticated FE riser programs.
• Ability to make simplified analyses using 17 Excel files provided on a companion CD-ROM.

• Introduction
• Influence of tension and pressure on riser global stability stability, stresses and strains
• Profiles and curvature of uniform risers and segmented risers - Influence of bending stiffness
• Stress Joint Design
• Riser Bundles. Local bending between guides
• Behavior of TTRs associated with floating platforms
• Behavior of SCRs
• Axial vibration of fixed risers
• Axial vibration of hung-off risers
• Riser transverse vibrations
• 10 Appendices
• 17 CD-ROM Excel programs