Hydroelastic analysis of pontoon-type circular VLFS with an attached submerged plate |
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Authors: | D.C. Pham C.M. Wang T. Utsunomiya |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Singapore;bDepartment of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper is concerned with the hydroelastic analysis of a pontoon-type, circular, very large floating structure (VLFS) with a horizontal submerged annular plate attached around its perimeter. The coupled fluid–structure interaction problem may be solved by using the modal expansion method in the frequency domain. It involves, firstly, the decomposition of the deflection of a circular Mindlin plate with free edges into vibration modes that are obtained analytically. Then the hydrodynamic diffraction and radiation forces are evaluated by using the eigenfunction expansion matching method which can also be done in an exact manner. The hydroelastic equation of motion is solved by the Rayleigh–Ritz method for the modal amplitudes, and then the modal responses are summed up to obtain the total response. The effectiveness of the attached submerged annular plate in reducing the motion of VLFS has been confirmed by the analysis. |
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Keywords: | Circular plate Submerged horizontal plate Anti-motion device Hydroelastic analysis Very large floating structures Mindlin plate theory |
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