The Sleipner accident and its causes

✍ Scribed by Bernt Jakobsen

• Book ID: 103996539
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-6307
• DOI: 10.1016/1350-6307(94)90018-3

✦ Synopsis

The concrete substructure of the Sleipner A platform sank during a controlled ballast test operation in August 1991. The accident, the investigation methodology, the course of events, the technical cause as well as supporting model tests are described.