...Proceedings of the ASME 2022 4th International Offshore Wind Technical Conference IOWTC2022 December 7-8, 2022, Boston, MA, USA IOWTC2022-94295 VALIDATION OF A FULLY INTEGRATED NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD TO ASSESS STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY ON A FLEXIBLE MODEL OF FOWT USING RB-FEA David Knezevic1 Romain...

... Abstract The simulation of collisions of ships using FEA has a long history of rules and guidelines to which such simulations should conform. Nevertheless, there are still subjects that lack thorough understanding in literature and standards. With the rise in popularity of stress state...

... FEA SHM Proceedings of the ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2022 June 5-10, 2022, Hamburg, Germany OMAE2022-85896 DIGITAL TWIN BASED STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF OFFSHORE CRANE Terje Rølvåg1, Øystein Stranden2 1NTNU / SINTEF OCEAN, Trondheim...

..., and the “springing” and “whipping” responses can be calculated. It is believed that the present FSI model will exhibit more advantages over the traditional rigid-body methods currently used in the ship seakeeping field. ship hydrolasticity fluid-structure interaction slamming ship motion CFD FEA vertical...

.... The calculated fatigue life agreed well with results from full scale resonance fatigue tests and demonstrates the value of using FEA to derive geometry-specific K solutions for this geometry. mechanically lined pipe CRA FEA stress intensity factor solution Proceedings of the ASME 2022 41st...

... physics. The third and the last paper will present the FEA results done by Bluewater’s in-house finite element model. Two seven-link chain specimens of R4 and R4S grades, both with the nominal diameter of 168 mm were tested. Five tension levels of 150, 200, 250, 300 and 350 t were used throughout...

... mechanical responses of pipes subjected to several loads. The results and FEA models can be useful for the designing structure of flexible pipes. flexible pipe theoretical calculate FEA Proceedings of the ASME 2021 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2021...

... the test setup and instrumentation. The second paper describes the test results, compares them with the OPB JIP estimations and tries to describe the chain OPB physics. The third and the last paper presents the FEA results performed by BES in-house finite element model. This paper is the first...

...INVESTIGATIONS INTO FATIGUE OF OPB LOADED OFFSHORE MOORING CHAINS Gary H. Farrow, Simon Dimopoulos AMOG Consulting Melbourne, Australia Andrew A. Kilner AMOG Consulting Inc. Houston, TX, USA ABSTRACT The Chain FEARS (Finite Element Analysis of Residual Strength) JIP developed a correlated FEA...

...FEA BASED SIMPLIFIED INTEGRATED ANALYSIS FOR MUDMAT DESIGN Dr. Srikanth Srigiriraju, Dr. Arindam Chakraborty1, Dr. Burak Ozturk, Devvrat Rathore Virtual Integrated Analytics Solutions, Inc. Houston, TX, USA ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to explore the opportunity to improve the design...

... shear stresses for mechanical failure. The FEA model was validated by analytical calculation of the stresses. Parametric study was performed by individually varying influencing factors such as — cement sheath material properties, its dimensions, and wellbore pressure loads. Sensitivity response curve...

... and to establish underlying trends in as-new mooring chain fatigue response, and a non-linear multi-axial Finite Element Analysis (FEA) fatigue assessment method was developed to correlate against available as-new chain link fatigue test data and underlying failure trends [1,2] as part of the JIP achieving...

...DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW, CORRELATED FEA METHOD OF ASSESSING MOORING CHAIN FATIGUE Gary H. Farrow1, Andrew E. Potts1, Andrew A. Kilner2, Phillip P. Kurts2 Simon Dimopoulos1, Eric Jal1 1AMOG Consulting, Melbourne, Australia 2AMOG Consulting Inc., Houston, TX, USA ABSTRACT The first phase of the Chain...

... environment. KEY WORDS Arctic, Pipeline, Permafrost, Heat Transfer, Finite Element, FEA, Abaqus INTRODUCTION Warm pipelines buried in permafrost present a key challenge to the development of petroleum reserves in the Arctic region. Thaw settlement is considered the most direct related problem in this regard...

... of this type of plug for practical use is a double-taper plug, and finite element method was carried out in order to determine the practical range of the plug geometry referring to the deep insight on the mechanism of expansion process. cold-expansion line pipe FEA plug design double taper plug plug...