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Journal of Marine Science and Application[ISSN:1002-2848/CN:61-1400/f]

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期数:

2025年3

页码:

552-566

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出版日期:

2025-07-25

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Title:

Improved Inverse First-Order Reliability Method for Analyzing Long-Term Response Extremes of Floating Structures

Author(s):

Junrong Wang¹;  Zhuolantai Bai¹;  Botao Xie²;  Jie Gui¹;  Haonan Gong¹;  Yantong Zhou¹

Affilations:

Author(s):

Junrong Wang¹;  Zhuolantai Bai¹;  Botao Xie²;  Jie Gui¹;  Haonan Gong¹;  Yantong Zhou¹

1. College of Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China;
2. CNOOC Research Institute, Beijing, 100027, China

Keywords:

Long-term response analysis; Floating structures; Inverse first-order reliability method; Convolution model; Gradient-based retrieval algorithm; Environmental contour method

分类号:

-

DOI:

10.1007/s11804-024-00459-6

Abstract:

Long-term responses of floating structures pose a great concern in their design phase. Existing approaches for addressing long-term extreme responses are extremely cumbersome for adoption. This work aims to develop an approach for the long-term extreme-response analysis of floating structures. A modified gradient-based retrieval algorithm in conjunction with the inverse first-order reliability method (IFORM) is proposed to enable the use of convolution models in long-term extreme analysis of structures with an analytical formula of response amplitude operator (RAO). The proposed algorithm ensures convergence stability and iteration accuracy and exhibits a higher computational efficiency than the traditional backtracking method. However, when the RAO of general offshore structures cannot be analytically expressed, the convolutional integration method fails to function properly. A numerical discretization approach is further proposed for offshore structures in the case when the analytical expression of the RAO is not feasible. Through iterative discretization of environmental contours (ECs) and RAOs, a detailed procedure is proposed to calculate the long-term response extremes of offshore structures. The validity and accuracy of the proposed approach are tested using a floating offshore wind turbine as a numerical example. The long-term extreme heave responses of various return periods are calculated via the IFORM in conjunction with a numerical discretization approach. The environmental data corresponding to N-year structural responses are located inside the ECs, which indicates that the selection of design points directly along the ECs yields conservative design results.

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Received date:2024-1-3;Accepted date:2024-2-22。
Foundation item:Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52088102 and 51879287), and National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFB2602301).
Corresponding author:Botao Xie,E-mail:xiebt@cnooc.com.cn

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