Pile Fatigue Failures. III: Motions in Seas
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 113, Issue 3
Abstract
Motion response calculation procedures are described for a vertical, singly standing pile with no top restraint. Discussion is directed to: (1) Sea state energy distribution versus frequency; (2) hydrodynamic force formulation; and (3) synchronization between pile natural frequency and vortex shedding frequency in wave flows. A nondimensional plot of in‐line hydrodynamic force suggests that experimentally based force coefficient values used in the analysis provide a reasonable to conservative force estimate when vortices were formed but not shed during 90% of the construction period. Sensitivity studies with alternative lift force formulations suggest that significant motion response and substantial fatigue damage occurred due to vortex shedding synchronization during the peak of the December 4–6, 1974 storm.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 113 • Issue 3 • May 1987
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