The Reliable Marine Structures (RMS) group at Texas A&M presently investigates and develops new applications of statistical methods and random vibration theory to offshore marine risers and to offshore wind turbines.
The present organization is an outgrowth from the (now defunct) offshore portion of the RMS group previously at Stanford University. In addition to developing methods, this group remains a focal point for
ongoing use and development of tools and techniques resulting
from previous research at Stanford.
In January of 2002, with the departure of Dr Steve Winterstein,
the Reliability of Marine Structures Group
dramatically reduced research in offshore-related
technology.
Theses and papers generated at Stanford remain on this website available for download.
At Stanford, the group combined post-M.S. graduate
study and basic research in the development and application of stochastic
methods of modeling and analysis of marine loads, structural response, and
structural behavior. The reliability topics ranged over the spectrum from
probabilistic modeling of the long-term wind-wave-current environment,
through identification and analysis of nonlinear
hydrodynamic effects in waves and forces, to the resulting
response and reliability of complex structural systems.
It is important to keep these technological developments alive,
and the best method for doing so is through continued use of the
software developed as part of the research effort.
Previous sponsors of the RMS research group at Stanford are
automatically invited to be a
member of this user's group. The usernames and passwords here
are the same as those from the from the
Reliabilty of Marine Structures
website. Structural reliability under
seisimic loading is still an active research area in the RMS
group at at Stanford under Professor Emeritus Allin Cornell.
My primary
interest is in offshore engineering, including development of new methodologies for use on marine risers and design of offshore wind turbiones. Please contact me at
sweetman@tamu.edu if you would like additional information or would
like to contribute to the group.
Recent RMS Sponsors
RMS Historical Background
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