LOAD PREDICTION FOR A MOORED CONICAL DRILLSHIP IN LEVEL UNBROKEN ICE: A DISCRETE ELEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
This thesis is composed of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies. In Part I, it discusses fundamental challenges of the discrete element method, provides a set of algorithms for addressing them, and presents performance gains of an improved algorithm on a target computer platform. A new c...
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| Language: | en |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4878 |