Hydro - Structure
Technical Bulletin 2010

This section gives very detailed insights into the newest developments of the direct calculation based hydro-structural tools and methods used for verification of the design of the floating bodies. State- of- the -art theories and methods were implemented, or are under implementation, into the new general offshore tool called HOMER. In a user- friendly way, this tool is able to tackle any type of hydro -structure interaction issues (local, global, extreme, fatigue, quasi- static, hydro-elastic…) for any type of floating objects (ships, offshore platforms…). The four representative papers in this section give a brief overview of few particular hydro-structural issues which were evaluated using HOMER in 2010. In particular we present an interesting example related to the fatigue of the structural details of a drilling semi-submersible platform, and few examples related to the evaluation of the influence of the global hydro -elastic ship behaviour (springing & whipping) on extreme structural responses and fatigue life of the structural details of Ultra Large Container Ships.

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