A basic understanding of the hydrodynamic response behavior of the two-body system is important for a wide variety of offshore operations. This is a complex problem and model tests can provide data that in turn can be used to retrieve key information concerning the response characteristics of such systems. The current study demonstrates that the analysis of these data using a combination of statistical tools and system identification techniques can efficiently recover the main hydrodynamic parameters useful in design. The computation of the statistical parameters, spectral densities and coherence functions provides an overview of the general response behavior of the system. The statistical analysis also guides the selection of the nonlinear terms that will be used in the reverse multi-input / single-output (R-MI/SO) system identification method in this study. With appropriate linear and nonlinear terms included in the equation of motion, the R-MISO technique is able to estimate the main hydrodynamic parameters that characterize the offshore system. In the past, the R-MISO method was primarily applied to single body systems, while in the current study a ship moored to a fixed barge was investigated. The formulation included frequency-dependant hydrodynamic parameters which were evaluated from the experimental measurements. Several issues specific to this extension were addressed including the computation load, the interpretation of the results and the validation of the model. Only the most important cross-coupling terms were chosen to be kept based on the estimation of their energy. It is shown that both the heading and the loading condition can influence system motion behavior and that the impact of the wave in the gap between the two vessels is important. The coherence was computed to verify goodness-of-fit of the model, the results were overall satisfying.

Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia capaz de unir a análise hidrodinâmica de um sistema oceânico com sua análise estrutural, assim como o pós-processamento acoplado dos resultados. Foram criadas rotinas e códigos para que a série temporal de forças das linhas de risers e amarração de uma plataforma pudessem tornar-se dados passíveis de entrada num pré- processador de elementos finitos. Com a aplicação destas no modelo, e sua conseqüente análise no domínio do tempo, foi criada uma interface para os resultados do solver, para que pudesse ser importados no pós-processador hidrodinâmico, e visualizados com os mesmos movimentos que os obtidos na resposta da análise hidrodinâmica. O TPNView, atual pós-processador do laboratório Tanque de Provas Numérico(TPN), foi quem recebeu por fim as rotinas e interfaces criadas a partir das idéias apresentadas nesta dissertação. Com isso é possível ver em uma única ferramenta de visualização tanto o comportamento hidrodinâmico quanto o estrutural de uma estrutura do sistema de uma só vez.. / This work presents a methodology developed to treat the hydrodynamic analysis of an offshore system conjointly with its structural analysis; the same methodology also allows for combined post-processing of data. Programming routines were created so as to enable the use of the time series of the forces present at the risers and mooring lines as input data for a finite element analysis solver software. Applying this forces in to the finite element model, and its subsequent analysis in time domain, it was possible to create an interface between the solver output, so that structural analysis could be imported into the hydrodynamic post-processor and visualised with the same movements obtained in the hydrodynamic analysis response. TPNView, the post-processor developed at the Tanque de Provas Numérico laboratory, was benefited from the programming routines and interfaces developed for this thesis. Using the aforedescribed visualisation tools, it became possible to monitor at once both the hydrodynamic and the structural behaviour of a system component.

Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia capaz de unir a análise hidrodinâmica de um sistema oceânico com sua análise estrutural, assim como o pós-processamento acoplado dos resultados. Foram criadas rotinas e códigos para que a série temporal de forças das linhas de risers e amarração de uma plataforma pudessem tornar-se dados passíveis de entrada num pré- processador de elementos finitos. Com a aplicação destas no modelo, e sua conseqüente análise no domínio do tempo, foi criada uma interface para os resultados do solver, para que pudesse ser importados no pós-processador hidrodinâmico, e visualizados com os mesmos movimentos que os obtidos na resposta da análise hidrodinâmica. O TPNView, atual pós-processador do laboratório Tanque de Provas Numérico(TPN), foi quem recebeu por fim as rotinas e interfaces criadas a partir das idéias apresentadas nesta dissertação. Com isso é possível ver em uma única ferramenta de visualização tanto o comportamento hidrodinâmico quanto o estrutural de uma estrutura do sistema de uma só vez.. / This work presents a methodology developed to treat the hydrodynamic analysis of an offshore system conjointly with its structural analysis; the same methodology also allows for combined post-processing of data. Programming routines were created so as to enable the use of the time series of the forces present at the risers and mooring lines as input data for a finite element analysis solver software. Applying this forces in to the finite element model, and its subsequent analysis in time domain, it was possible to create an interface between the solver output, so that structural analysis could be imported into the hydrodynamic post-processor and visualised with the same movements obtained in the hydrodynamic analysis response. TPNView, the post-processor developed at the Tanque de Provas Numérico laboratory, was benefited from the programming routines and interfaces developed for this thesis. Using the aforedescribed visualisation tools, it became possible to monitor at once both the hydrodynamic and the structural behaviour of a system component.