FLOATING MEMBER FOR FLOATING PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC E02B17/00 

FIELD: construction, particularly artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports and formed of a number of floating members.

SUBSTANCE: floating member comprises a number of wavy side surfaces to be connected with that of another similar floating member, four fastening lugs each located between two wavy side surfaces to receive fastening rings, upper surface and non-smooth lower surface for wave energy dissipation. Non-smooth lower surface has a number of uniformly distributed wavy ribs or a number of concentric profiled ribs or radial area including alternating valleys and projections and a number of projections located in areas separated with radial area of alternating valleys and projections.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of wave energy dissipation and improved floating member stability on water surface.

12 cl, 7 dwg