Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamics of Compliant Offshore Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 1-12

3. Principle of Virtual Work, Lagrange’s Equation and Hamilton’s Principle

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 13-28

4. Overview of Transverse Beam Models

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 29-93

5. Environmental Loading-Waves and Currents

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 95-110

6. Coupled Axial and Transverse Vibration in Two Dimensions

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 111-186

7. Three-Dimensional Vibration

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 187-228

8. Summary

   • Seon Mi Han, Haym Benaroya

   Pages 229-231

9. Back Matter

   Pages 233-274

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The purpose of this monograph is to show how a compliant offshore structure in an ocean environment can be modeled in two and three di­ mensions. The monograph is divided into five parts. Chapter 1 provides the engineering motivation for this work, that is, offshore structures. These are very complex structures used for a variety of applications. It is possible to use beam models to initially study their dynamics. Chapter 2 is a review of variational methods, and thus includes the topics: princi­ ple of virtual work, D'Alembert's principle, Lagrange's equation, Hamil­ ton's principle, and the extended Hamilton's principle. These methods are used to derive the equations of motion throughout this monograph. Chapter 3 is a review of existing transverse beam models. They are the Euler-Bernoulli, Rayleigh, shear and Timoshenko models. The equa­ tions of motion are derived and solved analytically using the extended Hamilton's principle, as outlined in Chapter 2. For engineering purposes, the natural frequencies of the beam models are presented graphically as functions of normalized wave number and geometrical and physical pa­ rameters. Beam models are useful as representations of complex struc­ tures. In Chapter 4, a fluid force that is representative of those that act on offshore structures is formulated. The environmental load due to ocean current and random waves is obtained using Morison's equa­ tion. The random waves are formulated using the Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum with the Airy linear wave theory.

• Vibration
• mechanics
• model
• modeling
• numerical methods
• structural mechanics

• Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

  Seon Mi Han

• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

  Haym Benaroya

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