This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Piper Alpha disaster drew attention to the damage likely to arise from explosions and fires on an offshore platform. And great concerns have been increased to prevent these hazards. Blast wall is one of the passive safety systems; it plays a key part of minimizing the consequences. However, a buckling due to explosion loads is a factor which can reduce the strength of blast wall. The buckling often occurs between web and flange at the center of blast wall. This study aims to find a solution for reinforcing its strength by installing a flat plate at the spot where the buckling occurs. First of all, ANSYS finite element method is adopted to numerically compute the structural resistance characteristic of blast wall by using a quasi-static approach. Sequentially, the impact response characteristics of blast wall are investigated the effect on thickness of flat plate by using ANSYS/LS-DYNA. Finally, pressure-impulse diagrams (P-I diagram) are presented to permit easy assessment of structural response characteristics of stiffened blast wall. In this study, effective use is made to increase structural intensity. of blast wall and acquired important insights have been documented.
The offshore wind power exploitation has experienced rapid development in recent years and has gradually moved into deeper waters with the floating wind turbine technology getting mature. Due to the strong concurrence of the wind and wave power in offshore sites, the idea of combined utilization of wind and wave power by one integrated device has attracted tremendous interests worldwide and a number of concepts and designs have been proposed. This article describes a novel integrated floating wind-wave generation platform (FWWP) consisting of a DeepCwind semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) and a point absorber wave energy convertor (PAWEC). Three models including the single PAWEC, single FOWT, and FWWP are considered to investigate the feasibility of the FWWP and its advantages over the single device. Hydrodynamic analyses are first conducted using the potential flow code AQWA with the viscous correction to investigate the hydrodynamic interactions effect of the integrated model. Then, a fully coupled model for the FWWP is established by calling OpenFAST in AQWA using the F2A method. The accuracy of the established coupled model is firstly validated with OpenFAST for analysing the dynamics of the single FOWT. Finally, fully coupled analyses of the FWWP are carried out for both regular and irregular waves in the operational sea-states. The coupled dynamics and wind and wave power generation of the FWWP are compared with those of the single PAWEC and FOWT for both the regular and irregular waves.
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