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Effect of pneumatic rubber fenders on the prevention of structural damage during collisions between a ship-shaped offshore installation and a shuttle tanker working side-by-side

Park, Sang Min; Kim, Hyeong Jin; Cho, Hye Rim; Kong, Kyoung Hwan; Park, Dae Kyeom; Paik, Jeom Kee; (2023) Effect of pneumatic rubber fenders on the prevention of structural damage during collisions between a ship-shaped offshore installation and a shuttle tanker working side-by-side. Ships and Offshore Structures , 18 (4) pp. 596-608. 10.1080/17445302.2022.2085898. Green open access

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Abstract

This study investigated the effects of pneumatic fenders on the prevention of structural damage from collisions between a ship-shaped offshore installation and a shuttle tanker during side-by-side offloading operations. A nonlinear finite element modelling technique was developed to simulate the kinetic energy absorption behaviour of pneumatic fenders during collisions. Full-scale pneumatic fenders were physically tested to validate the computational model at various collision speeds. The developed pneumatic fender model was integrated with a conventional finite element model of a hull structure to simulate the crashworthiness of the hull structure in collisions with a shuttle tanker during side-by-side offloading. This integrated computational model was then applied to examine case studies involving a VLCC class ship-shaped offshore installation hull with and without pneumatic rubber fenders colliding with a Suezmax class shuttle tanker. The key findings and insights of these investigations, particularly the collision energy absorption characteristics are summarised.

Type: Article
Title: Effect of pneumatic rubber fenders on the prevention of structural damage during collisions between a ship-shaped offshore installation and a shuttle tanker working side-by-side
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2022.2085898
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2022.2085898
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords: Pneumatic rubber fender, ship collision, ship-shaped offshore installation, shuttle tanker, side-by-side offloading, collision energy absorption characteristics
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150465
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