简介:AmethodofreliabilityanalysisbasedonadirectstrengthcalculationemployingthevonMisesstressfailurecriterionispresentedhere.Theshorttermstraindistributionsofshiphullstructuralcomponentsareidentifiedthroughthestatisticalanalysisofthewave-inducedstrainhistoryandthelongtermdistributionsbytheweightedsummationoftheshorttermstraindistributions.Thewave-inducedlongtermstraindistributioniscombinedwiththestillwaterstrain.Theextremestraindistributionoftheresponsestrainisobtainedbystatisticalanalysisofthecombinedstrains.ThelimitstatefunctionofthereliabilityanalysisisbasedonthevonMisesstressfailurecriterion,includingtherelateduncertaintiesduetothequalityofthematerialandmodeluncertainty.ThereliabilityindexiscalculatedusingFORMandsensitivityanalysisofeachvariablethathaseffectsonthereliabilityisalsodiscussed.
简介:Themostcriticalissueinthesteelcatenaryriserdesignistoevaluatethefatiguedamageinthetouchdownzoneaccurately.Appropriatemodelingoftheriser-soilresistanceinthetouchdownzonecanleadtosignificantcostreductionbyoptimizingdesign.Thispaperpresentsaplasticitymodelthatcanbeappliedtonumericallysimulateriser-soilinteractionandevaluatedynamicresponsesandthefatiguedamageofasteelcatenaryriserinthetouchdownzone.Utilizingthemodel,numerousriser-soilelementsareattachedtothesteelcatenaryriserfiniteelements,inwhicheachsimulateslocalfoundationrestraintalongtherisertouchdownzone.Theriser-soilinteractionplasticitymodelaccountsforthebehaviorwithinanallowablecombinedloadingsurface.Themodelwillberepresentedinthispaper,allowingsimplenumericalimplementation.Moreimportantly,itcanbeincorporatedwithinthestructuralanalysisofasteelcatenaryriserwiththefiniteelementmethod.Theapplicabilityofthemodelisinterpretedtheoreticallyandtheresultsareshownthroughapplicationtoanoffshore8.625″steelcatenaryriserexample.Thefatigueanalysisresultsofthelinerelasticriser-soilmodelarealsoshown.Accordingtothecomparisonresultsofthetwomodels,thefatiguelifeanalysisresultsoftheplasticityframeworkarereasonableandthehorizontaleffectsoftheriser-soilinteractioncanbeincluded.
简介:Theobjectiveofthisworkistoanalysefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.Thestressintensityfactorsofthecorrelatedcracksareobtainedbyfiniteelementanalysisandbasedonwhichthegeometrycorrectionfunctionsarederived.TheMonteCarlosimulationsareappliedtopredictthestatisticaldescriptorsofcorrelatedcracksbasedontheParis-Erdoganequation.Aprobabilisticmodelofcrackgrowthasafunctionoftimeisusedtoanalysethefatiguereliabilityofdeckstructuresaccountingforthecrackpropagationcorrelation.Adeckstructureismodelledasaseriessystemofstiffenedpanels,whereastiffenedpanelisregardedasaparallelsystemcomposedofplatesandarelongitudinal.Ithasbeenproventhatthemethoddevelopedherecanbeconvenientlyappliedtoperformthefatiguereliabilityassessmentofstructuressubjectedtocorrelatedcrackgrowth.