Dynamic Loading on Flexible Floating Anticollision System due to Head-On Collision by Uncontrolled Vessel
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 144, Issue 3
Abstract
The design of flexible floating anticollision systems (FFAS) against collision by uncontrolled vessels is based on quasi-static considerations, in which the maximum loading is taken to occur when the vessel is brought to a standstill and its kinetic energy is completely transferred to the strain and frictional energy of FFAS. The dynamic loading during the collision process due to system response characteristics of the FFAS is typically ignored. In the present study, the authors demonstrated through an experimental investigation that it is critical to consider both quasi-static and dynamic loadings to design against possible failures of the system. The experimental investigation was performed as a case study for a FFAS to protect a chemical wharf at Zhangzhou Port, China. The system consisted of a row of floating buoys connecting and mooring with steel chains. Extensive physical modeling tests were performed to quantify the motion of the collided buoy and the tensions of selected block and mooring chains when the FFAS was struck by a 5,000-DWT (deadweight tonnage) vessel model with different initial velocities. The results showed that the transient impact force on the system had multiple dynamic peaks during the collision process. Most importantly, the maximum loading on the FFAS (and the reaction impact force on the vessel in the opposite direction) occurred at a dynamic peak prior to when the vessel was halted to a standstill, and the magnitude was larger than the maximum quasi-static loading based on energy transfer principle alone. Thus, the case study highlighted the importance of including the dynamic loading and responses into the design considerations of FFAS.
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Acknowledgments
The work is supported by State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering Research Foundation, China (Grant LY1602) and the China Scholarship Council (award to Zhenxiang Sun for an 18-month oversea exchange at Nanyang Technological University).
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 144 • Issue 3 • May 2018
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Received: Jul 5, 2017
Accepted: Oct 16, 2017
Published online: Jan 18, 2018
Published in print: May 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Jun 18, 2018
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