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Lecture 05

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A. ANSYS Offshore

Geometry
modelling

AQWA

CFX/Fluent

Mechanical

HYDRO-STRUCTURAL DESIGN

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Design Integration

Structural

Geometry

Motions/

CFD

Moorings

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B. Load Mapping Process


Geometry Modeler

3D Hydrodynamic Panel
Model

Global Structural FE Model


(Coarse Mesh for Yielding and Buckling
Check)

Hydrodynamic Analysis Program

Motion and Load Response


RAOs

Load Cases with Various Combinations of


Hydrostatic Pressures and
Hydrodynamic Pressures/Accelerations

Load Transfer and


Balancing Program

Global FE Analysis Input with Coarse Mesh and


Locally Refined Mesh for Each Load Case

FEA Solver

Structural Responses
(Stress, Strain and Displacement)

Yielding, Buckling and Fatigue


Code Checks

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Geometry Modeler

3D Hydrodynamic Panel
Model

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Global Structural FE Model


(Coarse Mesh for Yielding and Buckling Check)

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3D Hydrodynamic Panel
Model

Hydrodynamic Analysis Program

Motion and Load Response


RAOs

Load Cases with Various


Combinations of
Hydrostatic Pressures and
Hydrodynamic
Pressures/Accelerations

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AQWA WAVE

Calculation and transfer of loads to Mechanical


Load Cases with Various Combinations of
Hydrostatic Pressures and
Hydrodynamic Pressures/Accelerations

AQWA-LINE

AQWA

ANSYS

Model

WAVE

Model

Load Transfer and


Balancing Program
A.K.A. AQWA WAVE

Motions & Pressures

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C. Load Transfer Requirements


Hydrodynamic database of pressures due to:

Hydrostatics
Incident wave
Diffracted wave
Radiation effects

Structural mesh

Define hull components


Steering information

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Pressure Mapping
Free floating body, therefore no explicit boundary conditions
Wave pressure should be balanced by inertial loading
AQWA-WAVE computed inertial load based upon AQWA model mass and
inertia matrix
Inertial load may not exactly balance pressures due to differences between
structural and hydrodynamic models
Mass inertia information may be checked from the structural model
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PRECISE MASS SUMMARY

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TOTAL MASS (X,Y,Z)= 0.30039E+08 0.30039E+08 0.30039E+08


MOMENTS AND PRODUCTS OF INERTIA TENSOR (I) ABOUT ORIGIN (GLOBAL CARTESIAN)
0.10717E+10-0.81854E+07-0.11227E+06
-0.81854E+08 0.24025E+10 -49530.
-0.11227E+06 -49530.
0.14226E+10
CENTER OF MASS (X,Y,Z)= 0.91020

0.95273

26.619

MOMENTS AND PRODUCTS OF INERTIA TENSOR (I) ABOUT CENTER OF MASS (GLOBAL CARTESIAN)
0.45005E+10-0.80984E+07 0.24211E+07
-0.80984E+07 0.36903E+10 0.25410E+07
0.24211E+07 0.25410E+07 0.34224E+10
PRINCIPAL CENTROIDAL MOMENTS OF INERTIA= 0.45010E+10 0.36852E+10 0.34224E+10

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Panel pressures are extracted from
database

P1

Nodal values are computed from


weighted averaging of pressures of
connected panels

P2

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N2

P3

Finite element nodal pressures computed


from weighted averaging of
hydrodynamic nodal values

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P5
N1

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P7

P4

N1

N3

N2

N4

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Hull definition

Pressure mapping is for outer hull only, therefore we need to define this

We make use of
named selections, or
groups, to define the
outer hull
A dummy pressure
load is applied to the
outer hull for transfer
to the mapping
interface file

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D. Structural Analysis
Free floating body analysis
AQWA WAVE

Global FE Analysis Input with Coarse Mesh and


Locally Refined Mesh for Each Load Case

FEA Solver

Structural Responses
(Stress, Strain and Displacement)

Yielding, Buckling and Fatigue


Code Checks

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ANSYS offers two facilities to help with free floating model analysis
Inertial relief; Computes accelerations based upon structural model
Weak springs; Automatically removes free body singularities

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Structural Mesh

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Stress Results

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ANSYS DM
Geometry

Hydrodynamic
Mesh

Structural Mesh

ANSTOASAS
AQWAWB Solve
Structural Data

Hyd Database

Control Data

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Pressure and
Acceleration
Data

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/TITLE, CASE 1001 'H = 2.0 T = 62.8 D =


0.0
! COMPONENT
ANSY
SFEDELE,ALL,ALL,PRES
FDELE,ALL
LSCLEAR,INER
SFE, 2409,
2,PRES,0, 0.0000E+00, -1.9740E+02,
SFE, 2411,
2,PRES,0, 0.0000E+00, 0.0000E+00,
SFE, 2412,
2,PRES,0, -1.9558E+02, -1.9503E+02,
SFE, 2416,
2,PRES,0, 0.0000E+00, 0.0000E+00,
SFE, 41361,
2,PRES,0, -3.9148E+02, -3.8728E+02,
SFE, 41362,
2,PRES,0, -3.9092E+02, -3.8734E+02,
SFE, 41363,
2,PRES,0, -3.9490E+02, -3.9511E+02,
SFE, 41364,
2,PRES,0, -3.9014E+02, -3.8543E+02,
ACEL, 1.9891E-07, 4.2397E-07, -1.0044E-02
CGLOC, 0.0000E+00, 0.0000E+00, 2.5400E+01
DCGOMG, 3.0279E-08, -2.4966E-08, 3.1457E-10

P =

0.0'

-1.9576E+02,
-2.0081E+02,
0.0000E+00,
-2.8120E+01,
-3.8728E+02,
-3.8728E+02,
-3.8924E+02,
-3.8734E+02,

0.0000E+00
-1.9777E+02
0.0000E+00
0.0000E+00
-3.9161E+02
-3.9148E+02
-3.9014E+02
-3.9092E+02

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