Extreme Seas

Design for Ship Safety in Extreme Seas

Status

completed

Scientists

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bettar Ould el Moctar
Dipl. Ing. Jens Ley
Dr.-Ing. Jan Oberhagemann

Project Description

The strategic objective of EXTREME SEAS was to enable European shipping industry to improve the design of ship structures that are exposed to rough climate, by providing technology and methodology that need to be a part of design for ship safety in extreme seas. The project related and adapted to safety regulations including Classification Societies’ Rules. Design procedures have been formulated in terms of recipes supporting harmonized standards that give presumption of conformity to the safety requirements. The project results help the shipping industry to adapt to climate change.

The ship behaviour in extreme sea states was analysed by numerical simulations and physical model tests by studying physical and statistical properties of extreme waves. Advanced numerical and physical simulation models for wave-structure interaction have been developed. A further objective was to develop warning criteria for marine structures against extreme sea states and extraordinarily large waves and to implement them in a marine weather forecasting system operated by a meteorological office belonging to a consortium member. The developed warning criteria are available for decision support systems for marine structures.

The developed methodology and tools are generally applicable to different ship types. The case studies considered in EXTREME SEAS were devoted to container vessels, passenger ships, LNG carriers and to product and chemical tankers. Critical responses have been investigated including green water impact on superstructures of the passenger ships.

The University of Duisburg-Essen focussed on the development and validation of numerical simulation tools for the prediction of ship motions and loads in extreme seas including hydroelasticity effects. Field methods that base on the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations have been used. Structural dynamics are covered by using the Finite-Element Method (FEM). Simplified Timoshenko-beam models and full 3D FE-models represented the global structural properties of the vessels considered.

The code enhancements covered:

• Implementation of nonlinear wave theory to model extreme waves,
• Wave damping with additional source terms,
• Implementation of a Timoshenko-Beam model to cover hydro-elastic ship responses
• Development of a method to couple a fluid flow solver with a Finite-Element solver for local structural analyses with a global 3D model.

Comparisons between experimental and simulation results were established to verify the developed tools. First, extreme irregular sea states were simulated and compared to model test results (Fig. 1).

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Fig. 1: Wave-elevation time series for a JONSWAP-spectrum with Hs=12.00 m, Tz=9.33 s and γ=3.3

Wave-induced ship responses including ship vibrations were analysed afterwards (Fig. 2).Systematic parameter studies of sea state properties were carried out finally to detect influence parameters on nonlinear short-term statistics of ship responses (Fig. 3).

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Fig. 2: Wave-induced ship vibrations in rough seaway, observed in the vertical bending moment midships

 

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Fig. 3: Impact of the peak-enhancement factor that describes the narrow-bandedness of an irregular sea state on vertical bending moment short-term statistics


​Funding

Eu-logo Funded by the European Commission

​Website


http://www.mar.ist.utl.pt/extremeseas/



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Publications
  1. Ley J., el Moctar O., 2014, An Enhanced 1-Way Coupling Method to Predict Elastic Global Hull Girder Loads, Proc. of ASME 2014 33th Int. Conf. on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE, San Francisco.
  2. Ley J., Oberhagemann J., Shigunov V., Amian C. Langer M., Rathje H., Schellin T., 2013. Green Water Loads on a Cruise Ship, in Proc. of ASME 2013 32th Int. Conf. on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE, Nantes.
  3. Oberhagemann J, Ley J., el Moctar O., 2012. Prediction of ship response statistics in severe sea conditions using RANSE, in Proc. of ASME 2012 31th Int. Conf. on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, pages 461-468, Rio de Janeiro.
  4. Oberhagemann J., Ley J., Shigunov V., el Moctar O., 2012. Efficient Approaches for Ship Response Statistics using RANS, in Proc. of the 22nd International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers Conference, ISOPE, Rhodos.
  5. Ley J., Oberhagemann J., Onorato M, el Moctar O., 2011. Simulation of Ship in Severe and Extreme Sea conditions, In Proc. of the 14th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS), Poole.
  6. el Moctar O., Kaufmann J., Ley J., Oberhagemann J. Shigunov V., Zorn T., 2010. Prediction of Ship resistance and ship motions using RANSE, Proc. of the Gothenburg Workshop, Gothenburg.
  7. Ley J., Schellin T., 2013. Extreme Seas Del. 4.5: Report with Validation of Computational Methods with Reference to Experimental Results, Tech. Rep., University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg.
  8. Ley J., Oberhagemann J., 2012. Extreme Seas Del. 4.6: Report Describing the Implementation of Additional Nonlinear Contribution in Existing Time Domain Seakeeping Code and Calculation Examples, Tech. Rep., University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg.
  9. Ley J., Oberhagemann J., 2013. Extreme Seas Del. 4.7: Report with Validation of new Developed Time Domain Seakeeping Codes by Systematic Comparison with Experimental Data obtained in the project, Tech. Rep., University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg.