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While preloading, the COASTAL DRILLER has a total weight of 21,401 kips. The LM are 2,560,416 ft-kips, and the TM are -6,206 ft-kips. What is the starboard leg reaction?

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While preloading, the COASTAL DRILLER has a total weight of 21,401 kips. The LM are 2,560,416 ft-kips, and the TM are -6,206 ft-kips. What is the starboard leg reaction?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Relationship between total weight, longitudinal moments (LM), and transverse moments (TM) when distributing reactions to multiple legs on a jack-up rig • How to find individual leg reactions by resolving total vertical force and transverse moment equilibrium • Sign convention for transverse moments (port vs starboard) and how a negative TM affects which side carries more load

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• Write the basic equilibrium equations: sum of vertical forces and sum of transverse moments, then think about how many legs share the total load • Ask yourself: how does a negative transverse moment influence whether the starboard leg reaction becomes larger or smaller than the simple total weight divided by number of legs? • Consider the geometry: how far is the starboard leg from the centerline, and how would you express the starboard leg reaction in terms of total weight and TM?

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• Be sure you are dividing the total weight correctly among the legs based on symmetry before adding the TM effect • Confirm your moment arm distance used for the transverse moment is correct and consistently in feet, so TM (ft-kips) divided by distance (ft) gives kips • After calculating, check that the sum of all leg reactions equals the given total weight (21,401 kips) within rounding.

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Question 1 of 2066636ee728f7522a1c51862b

While preloading, the COASTAL DRILLER has a total weight of 21,401 kips. The LM are 2,560,416 ft-kips, and the TM are -6,206 ft-kips. What is the starboard leg reaction?

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While preloading, the COASTAL DRILLER has a total weight of 21,401 kips. The LM are 2,560,416 ft-kips, and the TM are -6,206 ft-kips. What is the starboard leg reaction?

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