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This paper presents a practical method for dynamic fatigue assessment of jacket-type offshore structures, focusing on the impact of ocean waves as a primary source of fatigue-inducing stress. It employs a spectral approach to analyze the random nature of sea conditions and develops a frequency domain technique for random vibration computation. The methodology is illustrated using a specific offshore platform in the Persian Gulf, highlighting its suitability as a practical assessment tool.

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This paper presents a practical method for dynamic fatigue assessment of jacket-type offshore structures, focusing on the impact of ocean waves as a primary source of fatigue-inducing stress. It employs a spectral approach to analyze the random nature of sea conditions and develops a frequency domain technique for random vibration computation. The methodology is illustrated using a specific offshore platform in the Persian Gulf, highlighting its suitability as a practical assessment tool.

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Dynamic Fatigue Assessment of Fixed Offshore Platform 


Azin Azarhoushang; Hamid Nikraz
Paper presented at the The Twenty-second International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 2012.
Paper Number: ISOPE-I-12-078
Published: June 17 2012

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ABSTRACT
In this paper a practical method for dynamic fatigue assessment of jacket-type offshore structure is
investigated. Fatigue is a primary mode of failure for steel structures that are subjected to dynamic loads.
For offshore structures the main source of fatigue inducing stress range are ocean waves. The spectral
approach to fatigue analysis is an attempt to account for the random nature of a confused sea in a rational
manner. An accurate procedure for the random vibration computation of structure is developed using
frequency domain techniques. To illustrate the aforementioned methodology, a jacket type offshore
platform in the Persian Gulf has been selected.
INTRODUCTION
The primary structural components of jacket type offshore structures including topsides, jacket, piles and
the surrounding soil are considered using SACS software (refer to Fig. 1). For Platform description and
environmental data refer to Table 1. Spectral-based Fatigue Analysis is a complex and numerically
intensive technique. The method is most appropriate when there is a linear relationship between wave
height and the wave-induced loads, and the structural response to these loads is linear. Adaptations to the
basic method have been developed to account for various non-linearity. A frequency domain-spectral
method is based on linear concept (transfer function) and clearly able to reflect the random nature of the
wave loading via the combination of the structural transfer functions with a wave spectrum. In the spectral
method a relationship to characterize the expected energy in individual sea states is employed (such the
Pierson-Moskowitz or JONSWOP spectral formulations); with a "scatter diagram" that describes the
expected long-term probability of occurrence information for sea-states at a platform's installation site.
The suitability of a method as a practical assessment tool is investigated as a relevant response process.

Keywords: wave steepness, transfer function, offshore platform, platform, reservoir characterization,
upstream oil & gas, scatter diagram, frequency, offshore structure, subsea system

Subjects: Offshore Facilities and Subsea Systems, Reservoir Characterization, Information


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