TY - JFULL AU - Nelson J. Cossa and Narayanan S. Potty and Mohd Shahir Liew and Arazi B. Idrus PY - 2011/1/ TI - Reliability Analysis of Tubular Joints of Offshore Platforms in Malaysia T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 695 EP - 702 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/87 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 60, 2011 N2 - The oil and gas industry has moved towards Load and Resistance Factor Design through API RP2A - LRFD and the recently published international standard, ISO-19902, for design of fixed steel offshore structures. The ISO 19902 is intended to provide a harmonized design practice that offers a balanced structural fitness for the purpose, economy and safety. As part of an ongoing work, the reliability analysis of tubular joints of the jacket structure has been carried out to calibrate the load and resistance factors for the design of offshore platforms in Malaysia, as proposed in the ISO. Probabilistic models have been established for the load effects (wave, wind and current) and the tubular joints strengths. In this study the First Order Reliability Method (FORM), coded in MATLAB Software has been employed to evaluate the reliability index of the typical joints, designed using API RP2A - WSD and ISO 19902. ER -