... and numerical simulation of Haiji-1 mega jacket launch process is presented. Field motion measurements are carried out using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) placed on jacket and launching barge. The potential flow theory software MOSES is adopted to simulate...

... ABSTRACT Twin-barge floatover method can utilize two barges to install the topsides and is a promising method for the mega topsides installation. However, the complex connections between the twin barges and topsides pose great difficulties for floatover operation. The installation process...

... with other clean energy type grows tenfold to USD 1.2 trillion by 2050(IEA,2021).Wind energy, as the most commercialized renewable energy source, has correspondingly shown great appeal. subsea system time history barge line tension wind energy turbine lthm system lthm configuration wf load...

..., a thorough understanding of the coupled dynamical mechanics is required when using the cooperative multi-crane lifting with two vessels. operation model experiment numerical method proceedings upstream oil & gas lifting operation motion rao barge subsea system offshore supply vessel...

... elastic plate model is adopted for the ice sheet. A boundary integral equation is constructed, in which the Green function satisfying all the boundary conditions apart from that on the ship surface is adopted. Detailed results for wave loads on a barge ship are provided, which are generally highly...

... for suppressing non-realistic high wave elevation between two floating barges in close proximity. The Damping Lid coefficient is determined through comparing the wave elevation between CFD and BEM results. It is found that the Damping Lid coefficient is sensitive to the wave height and directions. Furthermore...

... upstream oil & gas barge draft ratio different water depth wave force subsea system model test shallow water water depth drift force frequency damping coefficient simulation proceedings coordinate system domain calculation rao variation coefficient Abstract...

..., the performance of the code is shown in the following by comparison with measurements of an experiment on the slow-drift motion of a rectangular barge moored above a sloping beach and interacting with irregular waves, in barge beam direction, including the infra gravity waves from the run-up on the shore...

... floatover installation barge upstream oil & gas model test load transfer process load transfer technique subsea system transfer technique proceedings jacket leg ballast system topside topside load artificial intelligence engineering operation load transfer stage impact load...

... upstream oil & gas sea state allowable sea state operation subsea processing lifting operation fender coefficient subsea system barge simulation construction vessel fender model criteria re-hit force spool subsea spool scenario transportation barge liftoff operation...

... stages for the selected design sea states. Special attention has been paid to the two rapid load transfer phases, in which the jack-down operations are simulated with a special connector that allows the topside elevation being quickly reduced on barge. Load decrease on hydraulic jacks and load increase...

... and carrying out engineering projects in the future. KEY WORDS: SPAR hull floating loadout grounded loadout NOMENCLATURE Floating loadout: A loadout onto a floating barge or vessel. Grounded loadout: A loadout onto a grounded barge or vessel. SWS: Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Docking: The barge...

... Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Inland-Waterway Barge in Fresh Water Ice Conditions Harsha Cheemakurthy, Meng Zhang, Karl Garme & Zuheir Barsoum Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden ABSTRACT There has been an increased awareness of the benefits of utilizing inland waterways (IWW...

... a barge prior to the placement of the caissons, as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5. Stone columns installation at Richard Bay Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facility (HKBCF), Hong Kong The HFBCF was constructed as part of the Zhuhai-Macau-Hong Kong Bridge project on 130 hectares reclaimed island. Due...

... Coupling effects of sloshing and barge motion in variable bathymetry Yan Su1, Shikun Zhou2, Zhiliang Gao1, Jianxi Yao1 1School of Transportation, Wuhan University of Technology 2School of energy and power engineering, Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan, China ABSTRACT The motions of barge...

... of rigid wedge-body water entry/exit by our highly efficient cut-cell finite-volume LES multiphase solvers. Interestingly, turbulent vortex occurring in fluid-structure interaction is well described for the deformed barge by STAR-CCM+ and Abaqus platform. The results can be used to analyze the mechanisms...

.... Fig.4 Comparison of the motions of the freely floating barge in waves (H = 0.04m, T = 1.2s) Fig. 5 Experimental configuration for the submerged moored structure in waves (duplicated from Ren et al., 2017) In the second case, a rectanglar barge freely floats on the free surface. The experiment...

... ABSTRACT This paper applies our in-house solver, naoe-FOAM-SJTU to simulate the seakeeping problem of two ships in side-by-side configuration. The physical models are chosen as a barge and a geosim, exposed in regular head waves with gap equals to 0.1m. The geosim set heave and pitch motions...

... interaction subsea system frequency bilge corner configuration peak value barge square bilge corner jonswap wave arrangement partially-restrained barge Irregular Seas Model Experiments on Side-by-Side Barges Kie Hian Chua (1) , Pedro de Mello (2) , Edgard Malta (3) , Daniel Vieira (3) , Rafael...

... learned from the first failure attempt. A combination of conventional low-deck floatover scheme and strand-jack lifting technology is adopted to rectify previous serious defects. Various field measurements, including a barge motion monitoring system, an environmental monitoring system, a visual monitoring...