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<p>Large relative motions between the ship and the water may cause water shipping on the main deck. In this thesis, the fundamental features of water-on-deck phenomena are in vestigated, together with the "green" water loading on a deck house in the bow region. The studies are relevant for a stationary ship like a FPSO in head sea waves.</p><p>Potential flow theory is used to study numerically a nonlinear two-dimensional problem in a plane containing the ship's centerplane. The developed model is verified by various test cases, and validated by published as well as new experimental data.</p><p>The influence of wave parameters, ship motions and hull geometry is investigated. Relevance of three-dimensional effects is discussed.</p><p>Dedicated two-dimensional model tests have been performed, both to elucidate the fluid mechanics involved in the water shipping and to validate the numerical method. It is found that the water shipping starts in the form of a plunging wave hitting the deck. This could cause structural damages. Most often, the plunging is localized in the bow region and do not affect the main flow at a later stage. In a few cases, larger masses of water bluntly impacting with the deck have been observed. The latter is consistent with seldom observations reported in 3-D experiments, with large and steep waves plunging directly onto the deck. More often the water flow along the deck resembles the one subsequent to a dam breaking. Both types of events are investigated numerically. The impact pressures on a vertical wall in the bow area are measured and compare well with the boundary element method.</p><p>The reliability of a dam-breaking model and shallow-water approximation to study the propagation of water on the deck is examined. The former can only qualitatively describe the flow evolution.The latter can in principle be used but needs information from the exterior flow and, thus, the solution of the complete ship-waveinteraction problem.</p><p>Water impacts with a deck house in the bow area are studied in details. Use of a similarity solution for a water wedge hitting a rigid wall at 90º is compared with the fully numerical solution. The method predicts correctly the first stages of the impact with a smaller computational effort. Inuence of local flow conditions and wall slope on hydrodynamic loads is discussed. Importance of hydroelasticity is investigated in case of realistic structural parameters for the deck house. This shows a limited role of structural deformations in determining the maximum loads.</p>

<p>The present thesis deals with ultimate strength and collapse analysis of ship structures. Within this are, the attention is directed towards simple and efficient nonlinear finite element models for stiffened plate panels in ship structures. Several types of Morley elements are investigated and two are selected for further development. These triangular elements assume constant stress distribution over the element area. </p><p>The first element considered is a nonlinear facet shell element which is valid within moderate rotations. Its elastic formulation has been proposed earlier. In this work, the element matrices are extended to account for material plasticity. The second element, is a displacement-based curved element which undergoes arbitrary large displacements and rotations. The discrete equilibrium equations for this element are re-derived so as to make them more efficient with standard Newton-Raphson solution procedures. </p><p>Material plasticity formulation using through-the thickness integration as well as resultants plasticity is presented. The evolution laws are derived from the natural laws of thermodynamics, and a return mapping algorithm with a backward Euler difference scheme is used for a solution of the evolution equations. The plasticity computations involve a solution of a single scalar yield surface for the plasticity multiplier. By performing the matrix algebra analytically, simple and explicit expressions are derived. These equations reduce the computational costs remarkably.</p><p>Numerical examples, mostly selected from well-know benchmark problems, are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed formulations. Very good agreement is obtained when compared with published results. In addition, typical problems for ultimate strength and collapse analysis of ship hull-girder are analyzed. These include plate girders, stiffened plate panels, as well as a cruciform element. The results show good agreement not only with those obtained from commercial finite element programs, but also from the experimental observations. For stiffened plate panels, comparison is made with DNV design rules, which is found to give non-conservative estimates for some load conditions.</p><p>Finally, a study on multi-span stiffened panels is performed so as to compare the estimates provided by the conventional single span model. It is observed that the conventional model provides conservative estimates, and the effect of transverse frames is especially significant on the finite element model of stiffened panels. </p>

Large relative motions between the ship and the water may cause water shipping on the main deck. In this thesis, the fundamental features of water-on-deck phenomena are in vestigated, together with the "green" water loading on a deck house in the bow region. The studies are relevant for a stationary ship like a FPSO in head sea waves. Potential flow theory is used to study numerically a nonlinear two-dimensional problem in a plane containing the ship's centerplane. The developed model is verified by various test cases, and validated by published as well as new experimental data. The influence of wave parameters, ship motions and hull geometry is investigated. Relevance of three-dimensional effects is discussed. Dedicated two-dimensional model tests have been performed, both to elucidate the fluid mechanics involved in the water shipping and to validate the numerical method. It is found that the water shipping starts in the form of a plunging wave hitting the deck. This could cause structural damages. Most often, the plunging is localized in the bow region and do not affect the main flow at a later stage. In a few cases, larger masses of water bluntly impacting with the deck have been observed. The latter is consistent with seldom observations reported in 3-D experiments, with large and steep waves plunging directly onto the deck. More often the water flow along the deck resembles the one subsequent to a dam breaking. Both types of events are investigated numerically. The impact pressures on a vertical wall in the bow area are measured and compare well with the boundary element method. The reliability of a dam-breaking model and shallow-water approximation to study the propagation of water on the deck is examined. The former can only qualitatively describe the flow evolution.The latter can in principle be used but needs information from the exterior flow and, thus, the solution of the complete ship-waveinteraction problem. Water impacts with a deck house in the bow area are studied in details. Use of a similarity solution for a water wedge hitting a rigid wall at 90º is compared with the fully numerical solution. The method predicts correctly the first stages of the impact with a smaller computational effort. Inuence of local flow conditions and wall slope on hydrodynamic loads is discussed. Importance of hydroelasticity is investigated in case of realistic structural parameters for the deck house. This shows a limited role of structural deformations in determining the maximum loads.

The present thesis deals with ultimate strength and collapse analysis of ship structures. Within this are, the attention is directed towards simple and efficient nonlinear finite element models for stiffened plate panels in ship structures. Several types of Morley elements are investigated and two are selected for further development. These triangular elements assume constant stress distribution over the element area. The first element considered is a nonlinear facet shell element which is valid within moderate rotations. Its elastic formulation has been proposed earlier. In this work, the element matrices are extended to account for material plasticity. The second element, is a displacement-based curved element which undergoes arbitrary large displacements and rotations. The discrete equilibrium equations for this element are re-derived so as to make them more efficient with standard Newton-Raphson solution procedures. Material plasticity formulation using through-the thickness integration as well as resultants plasticity is presented. The evolution laws are derived from the natural laws of thermodynamics, and a return mapping algorithm with a backward Euler difference scheme is used for a solution of the evolution equations. The plasticity computations involve a solution of a single scalar yield surface for the plasticity multiplier. By performing the matrix algebra analytically, simple and explicit expressions are derived. These equations reduce the computational costs remarkably. Numerical examples, mostly selected from well-know benchmark problems, are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed formulations. Very good agreement is obtained when compared with published results. In addition, typical problems for ultimate strength and collapse analysis of ship hull-girder are analyzed. These include plate girders, stiffened plate panels, as well as a cruciform element. The results show good agreement not only with those obtained from commercial finite element programs, but also from the experimental observations. For stiffened plate panels, comparison is made with DNV design rules, which is found to give non-conservative estimates for some load conditions. Finally, a study on multi-span stiffened panels is performed so as to compare the estimates provided by the conventional single span model. It is observed that the conventional model provides conservative estimates, and the effect of transverse frames is especially significant on the finite element model of stiffened panels.