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Main Authors: Hascoët, Romain, Jacques, Nicolas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19899
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author Hascoët, Romain
Jacques, Nicolas
author_facet Hascoët, Romain
Jacques, Nicolas
contents This study aims to investigate whether fatigue damage induced by bottom wave slamming can be a failure mode important to consider when sizing a marine structural element. The body exposed to wave impacts is assumed to have a shape and structural arrangement such that the duration of wave-impact loads is short relative to the structure's vibratory response time. In this dynamical regime, fatigue is found to be a potentially important failure mechanism: accounting for the risk of failure due to fatigue damage may result in design constraints that are significantly more conservative than those based on the risk of ultimate strength exceedance. The role of fatigue damage depends on the elevation of the body. It is predominant for low elevations, for which slamming events are frequent. Since this study aims to provide general insight, the specific details of the body, such as its shape and structural arrangement, are not specified. Instead, a general framework is used for the analysis. The way forward to address a specific case study, possibly including the effects of forward and seakeeping motions, is briefly explained.
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spellingShingle On the risk of fatigue failure of structural elements exposed to bottom wave slamming -- Impulse response regime
Hascoët, Romain
Jacques, Nicolas
Fluid Dynamics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
This study aims to investigate whether fatigue damage induced by bottom wave slamming can be a failure mode important to consider when sizing a marine structural element. The body exposed to wave impacts is assumed to have a shape and structural arrangement such that the duration of wave-impact loads is short relative to the structure's vibratory response time. In this dynamical regime, fatigue is found to be a potentially important failure mechanism: accounting for the risk of failure due to fatigue damage may result in design constraints that are significantly more conservative than those based on the risk of ultimate strength exceedance. The role of fatigue damage depends on the elevation of the body. It is predominant for low elevations, for which slamming events are frequent. Since this study aims to provide general insight, the specific details of the body, such as its shape and structural arrangement, are not specified. Instead, a general framework is used for the analysis. The way forward to address a specific case study, possibly including the effects of forward and seakeeping motions, is briefly explained.
title On the risk of fatigue failure of structural elements exposed to bottom wave slamming -- Impulse response regime
topic Fluid Dynamics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19899