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FATIGUE OF SHIPS AND OFFSHORE STRUCTURES

Source: https://www.explorermagazin.de/amstar/amaut_e.htm Source: https://metallurgyandmaterials.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/liberty-ship-failures/

Nandar Hlaing, Pablo G. Morato


Philippe Rigo
Loads – Ship structures

1) Static loads
• Still water hull girder loads
• External loads
• Internal loads

2) Dynamic loads
• Dynamic hull girder loads
• External loads
• Internal loads

IACS.(2017). Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers.
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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

Stress cycle (nomenclature) 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞


Δ𝜎 = 𝜎𝑚𝑎𝑥 − 𝜎𝑚𝑖𝑛
𝜎𝑚𝑎𝑥
Δ𝜎 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝜎𝑚𝑎𝑥 + 𝜎𝑚𝑖𝑛
𝜎𝑚 =
𝜎𝑚 2
𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞
𝜎𝑎 = Δ𝜎/2

𝜎𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨


𝜎𝑚𝑖𝑛
𝑅=
𝑓 = 0.45 𝐻𝑧; 𝑇 = 1/𝑓 = 2.22 𝑠; 𝜔 = 2𝜋𝑓 = 2.82 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠 𝜎𝑚𝑎𝑥
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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

Mean stress and stress ratio


Δ𝜎 = 80 𝑀𝑃𝑎
𝑅 = 0.2
(+) 𝜎𝑚 = 60 𝑀𝑃𝑎

𝑅 = −1
𝜎𝑚 = 0 𝑀𝑃𝑎

(−)

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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

Loading Condition Sea Waves Vibrations


• Hour or weeks • Around 10s • 1s

How many cycles in 25 years lifetime?

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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

Loading Condition Sea Waves Vibrations


• Hour or weeks • Around 10s • 1s

How many cycles in 25 years lifetime?

102 − 103 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 107 − 108 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 1010 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠

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Cyclic loads – Ship structures

Fatigue loading
1) Varying loading conditions
≈ 102 −103 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
2) Wave-induced pressure
≈ 107 −108 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
3) Propulsion-loads and vibrations
• Engine / propellers
• Wave impacts (slamming)
• Hull girder vibrations (whipping,
springing)

Fricke, W. (2017). Fatigue and Fracture of Ship Structures. Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering, 1-12.

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Sea Waves
Sea waves – Dynamic excitation

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Sea Waves
Slamming, whipping
- Slamming is impact of ship bottom on the sea
- Broad bow flare and flat stern in high-speed
ships
- Bottom slamming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcg0WWriOgA&ab
_channel=usnavyresearch

- Slamming induces whipping, i.e., significant hull


girder vibration
- Affects fatigue strength
- Experimental or numerical tests

Kim, J. H., Kim, Y., Yuck, R. H., & Lee, D. Y. (2015).


Comparison of slamming and whipping loads by fully
coupled hydroelastic analysis and experimental
measurement. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 52, 145-
165.

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Sea Waves
Springing
- The continual hull girder vibration by waves
- Wave excitation close to hull girder resonant frequency
- Issue for low frequency and high-speed ships
- Can also be present in low or moderate sea states
- First experience:
- Fatigue cracking on 700 ft Great Lakes bulk carriers in 1950s

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Sea Waves

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Sea Waves

Long or short ships!

Source: https://www.sweetcouch.com/art/20955025-
boat-wave

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