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Marine growth

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pondy08

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What is marine growth? how to account that in anlysis?
is it just direction addition of weight to the structure and can we account its mass in seismic case?

 
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You must certainly account for its mass in seismic calculations, weight for static strength, and also the increased cross-sectional area and roughness for any wave force calculations.
 
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What is marine growth?
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Exactly what it says. It is growth, deposition and fouling, biological in nature which grows on structures in a marine environment. Think, anemones, polyps, seaweed, barnacles, mussels, etc.

It varies with depth, as sunlight reduces.
 
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