Hydroelastic analysis of flexible floating interconnected structures

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1516-1531

  Fu, Shixiao ^a,b   Moan, Torgeir ^a   Chen, Xujun ^a   Cui, Weicheng ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA SHIP SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Bending moment; Displacement; Frequency domain; Hinge modes; Interconnected structures; Linear hydroelasticity

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; CONNECTORS (STRUCTURAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HYDROELASTICITY; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DISPLACEMENT; FLOATING INTERCONNECTED STRUCTURE; HINGE MODES; LINEAR HYDROELASTICITY;

OCEAN STRUCTURES;

BENDING MOMENTS; CONNECTORS (STRUCTURAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HYDROELASTICITY; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DISPLACEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOATING STRUCTURE; HYDROELASTICITY; STIFFNESS;

EID: 34247272100     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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