This paper presents a systematic study of the structural loads induced by abnormal waves on a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) platform. This work is a follow-up to a previous investigation that explored the possibility of using freak, abnormal, or episodic waves as additional wave load conditions to be considered in the design of ships and offshore platforms. In the previous work, a procedure was developed and implemented to adopt deterministic time series of wave elevation, which may include abnormal waves, as reference design conditions to calculate the wave induced structural loads on ships. An application example was presented for a FPSO subjected to the well known New Year Wave trace that was measured during a severe storm in the Central North Sea. In the present paper, the same procedure is applied to obtain the wave induced structural loads on a FPSO, but a systematic investigation is carried out by using a large set of wave traces. These wave traces have been measured at different occasions in the North Sea, additionally at one location in the Central Gulf of Mexico, and they all include episodic freak waves. In this way it is possible to assess the influence of realistic rogue wave characteristics on the wave induced structural loads. Finally, and based on the platform responses to all wave traces, some statistics are produced regarding the platform responses and structural loads induced by rogue waves.
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February 2009
Ocean Engineering
Global Loads on a FPSO Induced by a Set of Freak Waves
Nuno Fonseca,
Nuno Fonseca
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
e-mail: nfonseca@mar.ist.utl.pt
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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C. Guedes Soares,
C. Guedes Soares
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
e-mail: guedess@mar.ist.utl.pt
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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Ricardo Pascoal
Ricardo Pascoal
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
e-mail: rpascoal@mar.ist.utl.pt
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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Nuno Fonseca
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugale-mail: nfonseca@mar.ist.utl.pt
C. Guedes Soares
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugale-mail: guedess@mar.ist.utl.pt
Ricardo Pascoal
Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, and Instituto Superior Técnico,
Technical University of Lisbon
, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugale-mail: rpascoal@mar.ist.utl.pt
J. Offshore Mech. Arct. Eng. Feb 2009, 131(1): 011103 (8 pages)
Published Online: December 11, 2008
Article history
Received:
July 24, 2005
Revised:
January 4, 2006
Published:
December 11, 2008
Citation
Fonseca, N., Guedes Soares, C., and Pascoal, R. (December 11, 2008). "Global Loads on a FPSO Induced by a Set of Freak Waves." ASME. J. Offshore Mech. Arct. Eng. February 2009; 131(1): 011103. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2979801
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