Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MAR 565 — Mooring, Risers and Drilling Systems

3 units · MAR department course · Nigerian universities

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Mooring configurations: single-leg mooring, spread mooring, turret mooring; mooring components: wire ropes, synthetic fibre ropes, chains, clump weights, drag and suction anchors, piles; winches and windlass; single component and multi-component catenary equations; soil-mooring interaction; mooring failure modes; static, quasi-static, and dynamic mooring analyses; mooring design criteria and considerations. Drilling risers, production risers: flexible, steel catenary; flexible riser configurations: steep/lazy S and wave, free hanging; flexible riser components: bend stiffeners/ bell-mouths, unbonded/bonded flexible risers, bend restrictors; rigid riser components: tieback connectors, stress joints, riser joints and connectors, buoyancy modules, tensioners; riser casing; soil-riser interaction; riser failure modes; structural riser analysis; static and dynamic riser analyses; interference analysis; riser design criteria and considerations. Minimum Academic Standards Equipment Minimum Standards for Laboratories/ Workshops Although other laboratories and workshops not listed here will be shared with many other departments in the faculty and University in general, the laboratories and facilities listed in the table below should be provided and equipped specifically for every Marine Engineering degree programme. Each laboratory or workshop should have sufficient working spaces with

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