Re-Evaluation of VIV Riser Fatigue Damage

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Tognarelli, Michael; Beynet, Pierre; Modarres-Sadeghi, Yahya; Bourguet, Remi; Triantafyllou, Michael S
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Abstract
The paper describes a new characterization of the properties of the vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) of marine risers, which emerges from processing field and experimental data. We show that two currently employed assumptions: (a) that VIV is a statistically steady-state response containing one or several frequencies, and (b) that VIV consists of alternating dominant modes (mode-sharing), are inadequate. Instead, we find that the response either contains strong traveling wave components accompanied by high force harmonics; or consists of a chaotic wandering among several traveling and standing waves, associated with a wide-band spectrum; both types of response require careful consideration for correct fatigue evaluation. Topics: Fatigue damage, Pipeline risers, Vortex-induced vibration
Date issued
2010-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120730
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Journal
29th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering: Volume 6
Publisher
ASME International
Citation
Modarres-Sadeghi, Yahya, Rémi Bourguet, Michael S. Triantafyllou, Michael Tognarelli, and Pierre Beynet. “Re-Evaluation of VIV Riser Fatigue Damage.” 29th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering: Volume 6, 6-11 June, 2010, Shanghai, China, ASME, 2010. © 2010 ASME
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978-0-7918-4914-9
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