Model Simplification for Offshore Platforms Using Model Refinement Scheme

Abstract:

Offshore jacket platforms have been widely used in offshore oil and gas exploitation under hostile ocean environments. Finite element models of such structures need to have many degrees of freedom (DOFs) to represent the geometrical detail of complex structures, which leads to more computing power when performing the analysis and what’s more, the incompatibility in the number of degrees of freedom to the experimental models. Therefore, there is a need to simplify the analytical model by reducing the DOFs and in the process, making the essential eigen-properties agree with those of the experimental model is desired. In this paper, a scaled physical experimental model of an offshore jacket platform is simplified using the recently developed model refinement scheme. Mathematically, the procedure to implement the model refinement technique is an application of cross-model cross-mode (CMCM) method for model updating. The master degrees of freedom are chosen according to the placement of accelerometers in the experiment. Upon the completion of the refinement, the improved reduced jacket platform model matches the dynamic characteristics of the experimental model quite well.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 284-287)
• Pages: 1436-1440
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.284-287.1436
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Min Zhang, Shu Qing Wang, Jia Li Fu, Xiao Long Xu
• Keywords: Cross-Model Cross-Mode (CMCM), Jacket Platform, Model Reduction, Model Refinement

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