A methodology to calculate the fatigue damage in non-collinear wind generated sea and swell has been proposed for weather vaning turret moored FPSO’s. The methodology consists in specifying long-term distributions of sea and swell conditions by directional wave scatter diagrams of Hs and Tp and extracting the swell – and wind wave contributions by use of the Torsethaugen double-peaked wave spectra. By assuming the wind sea induced response and the swell induced response to be independent narrow banded processes, response spectra for the combined processes are established. The wave loads are calculated from a hydrodynamic analysis and a closed form approach is used to calculate the fatigue damage summation. The fatigue damage of selected side longitudinal stiffener fillet welds is calculated by using the proposed methodology for a Norwegian Sea FPSO at three different hull girder cross-sections. The relative contributions from sea and swell to the total damage are identified as well as the sea-states and headings that contribute most to the total damage. In addition, the proposed methodology is compared with the more traditional approach, assuming both wind sea and swell to come from the same direction. For the traditional approach, the corresponding resulting wave spectrum used is a single peaked type, i.e. Pierson Moskowitz.
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ASME 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
June 15–20, 2008
Estoril, Portugal
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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4818-0
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Fatigue Assessment of Side Shell Details of an FPSO Based on Non-Collinear Sea and Swell
Odd Jan Andersen,
Odd Jan Andersen
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
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Sverre Haver,
Sverre Haver
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
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Olav Rognebakke,
Olav Rognebakke
Det Norske Veritas AS, Ho̸vik, Norway
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Octavi Sado´
Octavi Sado´
Det Norske Veritas AS, Ho̸vik, Norway
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Odd Jan Andersen
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Sverre Haver
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Narve Oma
StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway
Olav Rognebakke
Det Norske Veritas AS, Ho̸vik, Norway
Octavi Sado´
Det Norske Veritas AS, Ho̸vik, Norway
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OMAE2008-57241, pp. 235-245; 11 pages
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July 27, 2009
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Andersen, OJ, Haver, S, Oma, N, Rognebakke, O, & Sado´, O. "Fatigue Assessment of Side Shell Details of an FPSO Based on Non-Collinear Sea and Swell." Proceedings of the ASME 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. Volume 1: Offshore Technology. Estoril, Portugal. June 15–20, 2008. pp. 235-245. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2008-57241
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