Nowadays, flexible risers are widely deployed in various configurations for the production of hydrocarbons in offshore fields. For example, in the self-standing hybrid risers’ applications, a single riser or a set of risers are suspended by a subsurface buoy called “Can”. Then a piece of flexible riser connects the Can to the production platform conveying the hydrocarbon production stream. This work concerns about this jumper, an experiment using a 10 m long model was carried out at the Deep Sea Basin of the National Maritime Research Institute in Japan. The model was made by three concentric unbonded layers: a silicon made inner layer; a crisscross steel wire layer; and a rubber made outer layer. During this experiment, the model was suspended through both ends; one model’s end was fixed and the other end was connected to an oscillator that generates the oscillatory motion in three different directions. In addition, a positive displacement pump injected fresh water into the model. Further, the model was instrumented with two degrees of freedom accelerometers fixed along its length; and a six degrees of freedom force/torque transducer was also installed at one pipe end. In addition, the Deep Sea Basin’s Visual Measurement System tracks and calculates the motion of several measurement stations along the pipe. A parametric analysis was carried out changing the oscillating frequency and internal flow rate. Discussion and results of numerical simulation are also included.

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