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Evaluation of Residual Strength of Offshore Structures

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05452313
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 海洋工学
Research InstitutionHIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

YAO Tetsuya  Hiroshima Univ., Faculty of Eng., Professor, 工学部, 教授 (20029284)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KITAMURA Mitsuru  Hiroshima Univ., Faculty of Eng., Ass.Prof., 工学部, 助教授 (40195293)
FUJIKUBO Masahiko  Hiroshima Univ., Faculty of Eng., Ass.Prof., 工学部, 助教授 (30156848)
Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥7,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
KeywordsOffshore structure / Dent damage / Crack damage / Residual strength / Tubular member / Idealized structural unit method / Residual stress / Crack extension / 凹損 / 三次元骨組構造 / 亀裂
Research Abstract

Residual strength of offshore structures which experienced denting damages, overall bending damages and cracked damages was investigated through a series of collapse tests and FEM shell analyzes on damaged tubular members. Based on the results, several improvements were made on the existing models of the Idealized Structural Unit Method (ISUM) for damaged tubular members.
From the bending collapse tests and FEM analyzes on tubular specimens with denting damages, it has been found that a significant magnitude of residual stress is induced during indenting process and this results in a large reduction of member stiffness when dented region is loaded in tension. When the dented region is loaded in compression, a load carrying capacity is mostly reduced, while in tension it may be recovered up to the ultimate strength of intact members because of the decrease of dent depth under the action of tensile load. However, deformations and local strains are large compared to the intact condition. The ISUM was improved so as to consider the reduction of stiffness and the change in dent depth for the case of dented damage loaded in tension, and the validity was demonstrated through a comparison with tested and FEN results.
Bending collapse tests, tensile collapse tests and the related FEM shell analyzes were performed on tubular specimens with a circumferential trough-thickness crack. The existing ISUM for cracked tubular members were also improved so that the effect of local yielding at crack tip can be considered in stiffness calculation.
Using the improved ISUM,several examples including plane frames and space frames having damages were analyzed and the effects of damaged on the load-carrying capacity of structures were investigated.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report
  • 1993 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1993-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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