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Abstract
The trend towards the installation of more offshore constructions for the production
and transmission of marine oil, gas and wind power is expected to
continue over the coming years. An important process in the offshore construction
design is the assessment of seabed soil stability exposed to dynamic
ocean waves. The goal of this research project is to develop numerical soil
models for computing realistic seabed response in the interacting offshore environment,
where ocean waves, seabed and offshore structure highly interact
with each other.
The seabed soil models developed are based on the ’modified’ Biot’s consolidation equations, in which the soil-pore fluid coupling is extended to account for the various nonlinear soil stress-strain relations included. The Finite volume method (FVM) together with a segregated solution strategy has been used to numerically solve the governing equations. In the FVM segregated scheme, the conventional linear and uncoupled terms are discretized implicitly, whereas the nonlinear and coupled terms are discretized explicitly by using available values from previous time level or iteration step. The implicit-explicit discretisation approach leads to linearized and decoupled algebraic systems, which are solved using the fixed-point iteration method. Upon the convergence of the iterative method, fully nonlinear coupled solutions are obtained. The developed nonlinear coupled soil models are capable of predicting the transient and gradual pore pressure variations as well as the developed nonlinear soil displacements and stresses under monotonic and cyclic loading.
With the FVM nonlinear coupled soil models as a basis, multiphysics modeling of wave-seabed-structure interaction is carried out. The computations are done in an open source code environment, OpenFOAM, where FVM models of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and structural mechanics are available. The interaction in the system is modeled in a 1-way manner: First detailed free surface CFD calculations are executed to obtain a realistic wave field around a given structure. Then the dynamic structural response, due to the motions in the surrounding water, are calculated using a linear elastic solver. Finally, the direct wave loads on the seabed and the indirect wave loads on the seabed-structure interface through the structure are provided as input for a dynamic soil response calculation. Simulation results in general demonstrate that, the interaction modeling provides improved wave loading environments for geotechnical assessment of the seabed soil.
The seabed soil models developed are based on the ’modified’ Biot’s consolidation equations, in which the soil-pore fluid coupling is extended to account for the various nonlinear soil stress-strain relations included. The Finite volume method (FVM) together with a segregated solution strategy has been used to numerically solve the governing equations. In the FVM segregated scheme, the conventional linear and uncoupled terms are discretized implicitly, whereas the nonlinear and coupled terms are discretized explicitly by using available values from previous time level or iteration step. The implicit-explicit discretisation approach leads to linearized and decoupled algebraic systems, which are solved using the fixed-point iteration method. Upon the convergence of the iterative method, fully nonlinear coupled solutions are obtained. The developed nonlinear coupled soil models are capable of predicting the transient and gradual pore pressure variations as well as the developed nonlinear soil displacements and stresses under monotonic and cyclic loading.
With the FVM nonlinear coupled soil models as a basis, multiphysics modeling of wave-seabed-structure interaction is carried out. The computations are done in an open source code environment, OpenFOAM, where FVM models of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and structural mechanics are available. The interaction in the system is modeled in a 1-way manner: First detailed free surface CFD calculations are executed to obtain a realistic wave field around a given structure. Then the dynamic structural response, due to the motions in the surrounding water, are calculated using a linear elastic solver. Finally, the direct wave loads on the seabed and the indirect wave loads on the seabed-structure interface through the structure are provided as input for a dynamic soil response calculation. Simulation results in general demonstrate that, the interaction modeling provides improved wave loading environments for geotechnical assessment of the seabed soil.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Kgs. Lyngby |
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Publisher | Technical University of Denmark |
Number of pages | 286 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788778773579 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Modeling of Soil-Structure-Water Interaction
Tang, T. (PhD Student), Johannesson, B. (Main Supervisor), Pedersen, J. R. (Supervisor), Fabricius, I. L. (Examiner), Jasak, H. (Examiner) & Vabbersgaard Andersen, L. (Examiner)
15/11/2011 → 23/02/2015
Project: PhD