《Dynamic Response Analysis of a Floating Mooring System》.pdfVIP

J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research) DOI 10.1007/s11802-014-2023-9 ISSN 1672-5182, 2014 13 (3): 381-389 /xbywb/ E-mail:xbywb@ Dynamic Response Analysis of a Floating Mooring System LE Conghuan1), 2), *, DING Hongyan1), 2), 3), and ZHANG Puyang1), 2), 3) 1) State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China 2) School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China 3) Key Laboratory of Coast Civil Structure Safety, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China (Received May 1, 2012; revised August 13, 2012; accepted December 3, 2013) © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract An innovative floating mooring system with two or more independent floating mooring platforms in the middle and one rigid platform on each side is proposed for improving efficiency and safety in shallow water. For this new system, most of collision energy is absorbed through the displacement of floating platforms. In order to illustrate the validity of the system, a series of model tests were conducted at a scale of 1:40. The coupled motion characteristics of the floating mooring platforms were discussed under regular and irregular waves, and the influences of wave direction and other characteristics on dynamic response of the system were analyzed. The results show that the mooring system is safest at 0˚ of wave incident angle, whereas the most dangerous mooring state occurs at 90˚ of wave incident angle. Motion responses increase with the increase of wave height, but are not linearly related to changes in wave height. Key words floating mooring system; model test; wave characteristics; impact force; motion response waves and vessels, and hence has good performance in 1 Introduction