Principle of Helideck Structural Loading

Today, with increasing of oil and gas field’s development, and also installation or commissioning of related offshore technology, the need for communication and air access to these facilities has also increased. Considering by the space limitation of offshore installation, the helicopters would be an appropriate machine to accelerate the transportation. Also Helidecks on this installation would operate such as an airport, so this additional structure must be designed in a way to have a proper interaction with platforms. Hence, loading, locating and analyzing the environmental conditions can play a significant role on safe flight operations and compatibly interaction with the superstructure. In this study principles of Helidecks loading has been described with a case study of Reshadat platform at Persian Gulf in Iran.