Abstract. An investigation emphasizing on free vibrations of steel catenary risers to determine the natural frequencies is numerically approached in this work. A model formulation is developed using the variational approach. Nonlinear equations of motion coupled in axial and transverse displacements are derived through the principle of the stationary potential energy.
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