Module overview
This module extends the fundamentals associated with the structural design of floating maritime vessels to account for the complexity of fluid-structure interactions on ship life and operation. Students will assess the impact of fluid-structure interactions by predicting the structural integrity through life of floating maritime vessels in a seaway.
There are two assignments which integrate the fluid loading and structural response through applications to real floating vessels.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Critique concepts of rational structural design procedures [M3, M4, M6, M7, M8, M9, M14]
- Apply deterministic and statistical measures to assess wave loading and floating vessel behaviour in different sea states [M1, M2, M5, M16]
- Through analysis and critical assessment, understand the nuances of dynamics in relation to floating vessel design and operation. [M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M16]
- Assess the importance of safety and sustainability in structural design [M6, M7, M8, M9, M14]
- Qualify the dynamic behaviour of differing floating vessel types through synthesis of concepts into engineering application and design. [M1, M2, M16]
- Quantify the structural effect on floating vessels of fluid-structure interactions through the synthesis of seakeeping and hydroelasticity methods [M1, M2, M5, M6, M16]
- Argue how fatigue, fracture, and fluid structure interactions impact the structural design of floating vessels. [M1, M2, M3, M4]
- Critique fatigue and fracture assessment approaches for floating vessels and formulate a spectral fatigue assessment for the long-term structural performance. [M1, M2, M3, M4, M5]
Syllabus
Part A; lectures on:
Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Introduction to hydroelasticity theory.
- Dynamics of flexible beamlike structure in vacuo.
- Principal modes and natural frequencies.
- Hydroelastic approach to still water problem.
- Hydrodynamics of regular waves
- Strip theory, boundary value problems.
- Fluid actions in equilibrium axes.
- Hydrodynamic coefficients
- Generalized equation of motion in seaway.
- Responses (bodily motions -seakeeping, distortions, bending moments, stresses) in waves.
- Random seas and responses in random seas.
- Criteria for comparing floating vessel forms - slamming, deck wetness, etc..
Part B; lectures on:
Structural Integrity
- The rational structural design of floating vessels:
- Levels of structural design processes
- Limit state design including ultimate and fatigue limits and load effects
- Fatigue of floating vessel structures:
- Basic concepts of fatigue, fatigue damage mechanisms, S-N methodology, local strain methodology
- Life time load determination, wave induced loads, stochastic combination of loads
- Load effect determination, FEA approaches and choices of elements, meshing, structural details
- Fatigue assessments, voyage simulation behaviour, long term fatigue damage
- Fracture modelling in ship and offshore structures:
- Fundamental concepts - energy-based and stress intensity based approaches
- LEFM, modes of crack extension, useful K solutions, fracture testing, life modelling
The integrations of Parts A (worth 65%) and B (worth 35%) will take place through two group assignments.
Wave-induced Loads Assignment (65%);
where the students perform predict wave-induced loads on a real floating vessel using quasi-static and coupled hydroelastic analyses and understand how flexible models can be used for experimentatal validation.
Ship Fatigue Life Assignment (35%);
where the students analyse stress records (measured or predicted) of a real floating vessel in order to predict the fatigue life of a structural detail.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- lectures on hydroelasticity and fluid structure interactions
- lectures on fatigue and fracture related to ship structures
- lectures on design methods
- supervised design office sessions focused on the two assignments
Learning activities include
- Directed reading/independent learning
- Example sheets for problem solving exercises
- Report-writing for the 2 group assignments
- Application of structures and fluid-structure interactions related knowledge to real floating vessels through the two assignments
- Use of commercial and academic software to perform the two assignments
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 16 |
Lecture | 22 |
Practical classes and workshops | 14 |
Follow-up work | 30 |
Completion of assessment task | 54 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 14 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Blackboard. Resources and reading list: Available on blackboard
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Referral Method: There are two assignments in this module. If the mark achieved for the module is less than the module pass mark then a referral will be required in one or both assignments:
If the marks for both assignments are less than the module pass mark then both assignments must be referred. Otherwise the assignment scoring less than the module pass mark should be referred and the passed assignment marks will be carried forward.
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Continuous Assessment | 35% |
Final Assessment | 65% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Set Task | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External