简介:<正>Glasgow,UK18th-20thAugust2014AbouttheconferenceTheconferencewillbringtogetherresearchers,practitionerstoaddressthesafetyandreliabilityissuesasapplicabletodifferentstagesintheanalysis,designconstructionandin-servicelifeofmarinestructuressuchasship,offshore,submergedstructuresandtherenewableenergystructures.Thiswillinvolveadvancedanalysisbothforstrengthandloadmodelinordertoestablishsafetylevelbothfordeterministicmodel(WSDmethod)andforreliabilitybaseddesign(LRFDmethod).Oneoftheaimsofthedesignshouldbetoachieveadequatebutnotexcessivelevelofsafetywhichcanbesatisfiedthroughreliabilitybasedmethodandthistakesintoaccountuncertaintiesofdesignvariables.CurrentmoderncodesaretryingtoprovidedesignproceduresonLRFDformatalthoughnoexplicitreliabilityanalysisisdonetoarrivethesepartialsafetyfactors.Thisconferencewilldealwithalltheseissuesandseehowthesetechniquesareappliedtovarioustypesofmarinestructures.Glasgow,thevenueforthisconferenceisacitywhichhaslotofattractions.TheworldfamousLoch-LomondisonlyfewmilesawayandEdinburghis50minutesjourneybytrain.Thecitywillalsohostthe2014CommonwealthGames.
简介:AmethodofreliabilityanalysisbasedonadirectstrengthcalculationemployingthevonMisesstressfailurecriterionispresentedhere.Theshorttermstraindistributionsofshiphullstructuralcomponentsareidentifiedthroughthestatisticalanalysisofthewave-inducedstrainhistoryandthelongtermdistributionsbytheweightedsummationoftheshorttermstraindistributions.Thewave-inducedlongtermstraindistributioniscombinedwiththestillwaterstrain.Theextremestraindistributionoftheresponsestrainisobtainedbystatisticalanalysisofthecombinedstrains.ThelimitstatefunctionofthereliabilityanalysisisbasedonthevonMisesstressfailurecriterion,includingtherelateduncertaintiesduetothequalityofthematerialandmodeluncertainty.ThereliabilityindexiscalculatedusingFORMandsensitivityanalysisofeachvariablethathaseffectsonthereliabilityisalsodiscussed.
简介:Theobjectiveofthisworkistoanalysefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.Thestressintensityfactorsofthecorrelatedcracksareobtainedbyfiniteelementanalysisandbasedonwhichthegeometrycorrectionfunctionsarederived.TheMonteCarlosimulationsareappliedtopredictthestatisticaldescriptorsofcorrelatedcracksbasedontheParis-Erdoganequation.Aprobabilisticmodelofcrackgrowthasafunctionoftimeisusedtoanalysethefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuresaccountingforthecrackpropagationcorrelation.Adeckstructureismodelledasaseriessystemofstiffenedpanels,whereastiffenedpanelisregardedasaparallelsystemcomposedofplatesandarelongitudinal.Ithasbeenproventhatthemethoddevelopedherecanbeconvenientlyappliedtoperformthefatiguereliabilityassessmentofstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.