... engineering hinged multi-floating bodies multibody dynamics Kane method time-domain analysis dynamics of structures fluid–structure interaction hydrodynamics ocean space utilization structural safety and risk analysis China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 10.13039/501100002858...

... 2008 09 06 2009 04 05 2010 04 05 2010 damping ships time-domain analysis free rolling linear and nonlinear damping moments calm water Severe rolling is still a dangerous phenomenon against ship safety at sea. In other words, the roll motion may be distinguished...

... the importance of using such refined nonlinear wave models in stochastic simulation of the response of offshore wind turbines. bending extrapolation offshore installations stochastic processes time-domain analysis turbulence wind wind turbines While addressing different load cases, wind turbine...

... installations pipes remaining life assessment stress-strain relations tensile strength time-domain analysis The structure of unbonded flexible risers gives a nonlinear and hysteretic response when subjected to bending, making it much more complex to model such pipes than it is to model steel...

... ships time-domain analysis water waves We proceed by comparing reduced data in terms of wave heights. In order to perform data reduction we need to choose steady parts of the time series. The model test time series is quite stationary for all times showing that the AWACS is effective...

... of the CPU time records for the two simulations. Simulations were run on a computer with 1.8 GHz CPU and 1 GByte physical memory. 03 03 2007 18 12 2007 11 12 2008 elasticity flexible structures marine systems time-domain analysis Hybrid frequency-time...

... to the experiments for both linear computations and body-exact computations. 22 06 2007 15 02 2008 01 10 2008 boundary integral equations hydrodynamics surface waves (fluid) time-domain analysis water waves The accurate predictions of wave-induced motions and loads are very...

..., while the other is between the mean offset, the wave frequency, and the low frequency motions of the system. At present, it is unfeasible to employ fully coupled time domain analysis on a routine basis due to the prohibitive computational time. This has spurred the development of more efficient methods...

... frequency-domain analysis Gaussian processes surface waves (fluid) time-domain analysis wave mechanics two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) wave nonlinearity Morison force In offshore engineering applications, the random sea surface is usually modeled as a stationary Gaussian...

... ∇ ≡ ( ∂ ∕ ∂ x , ∂ ∕ ∂ y , ∂ ∕ ∂ z ) , p ( i ) ( i = 1 , 2 ) is the hydrodynamic pressure, B is the elastic bulk modulus of the fluid, and generally is 2.0 × 10 9 Pa for water. 02 03 2005 03 06 2006 time-domain analysis structural...

... Structure—Part 2: Results and Sensitivity Study ,” ASME J. Offshore Mech. Arct. Eng. 0892-7219 10.1115/1.1710874 , 126 ( 2 ), pp. 183 – 190 . 27 09 2005 structural engineering offshore installations ocean waves frequency-domain analysis time-domain analysis perturbation...

... = 10,000 Normalized elastic curve, K = 10,000 . Snapshots for t ∕ T = 0 , 0.1 , 0.2 , 0.3 , 0.4 , 0.5 ; T = 2 π ω − 1 . a 0 = 1 ; β 0 = 0.2 . soil vortices vibrations eigenvalues and eigenfunctions time-domain...

... 2005 offshore installations ocean waves ships time-domain analysis transfer functions structural engineering design engineering The traditional approach to estimate the design loads for ships and offshore structures was to estimate the linear or eventually the nonlinear wave...

... received August 6, 2003; final revision, March 23, 2004. Review conducted by: R. Riggs. 06 August 2003 23 March 2004 27 05 2005 boats stability time-domain analysis differential equations Markov processes polynomial approximation Fokker-Planck equation The stability...

... spectrum) of a typical extreme environmental loading in the Gulf of Mexico. The input time histories of the force and the moment for the combined model are obtained at the center of gravity of the Spar by using a standard motion analysis program (MLTSIM). The numerical results of the time domain analysis...

... periodic roll motions was proposed 10 . boats hydrodynamics hydrostatics water waves time-domain analysis stability 05 August 2003 23 March 2004 23 03 2005 Contributed by the OOAE Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING...

... offshore installations mechanical testing elasticity mechanical engineering computing time-domain analysis Tacoma Narrows Constructors is building a new suspension bridge in Tacoma, close to Seattle, Washington State, USA. There is an existing bridge of comparable dimension near the location...

... time-domain analysis water waves The environmental loads on moored structures, namely due to wind, current, and waves, are of a main concern when determining vessel motions and evaluating mooring design. Research in this area started several years ago, including both experimental...

..., an implicit matching can be done. When a volume-discretization method is used in the interior region, a newly developed explicit matching procedure is performed. Demonstrations of the transparent properties of this shell are made for several types of unsteady problems. integral equations time-domain...

... 2001; final revision, December 2001. Associate Editor: R. Bea. 01 July 2001 01 December 2001 01 08 2002 marine systems engineering fatigue probability impact (mechanical) external flows computational fluid dynamics finite element analysis time-domain analysis...