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Safety Assessment for Fatigue Life of Floating Platform Mooring

WANG Jia-ying,ZHANG Shi-lian,XU Wei,WANG Wen-ming   

  1. (State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China)
  • Received:2007-11-03 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-11-28 Published:2008-11-28
  • Contact: ZHANG Shi-lian

Abstract: Based on Miner fatigue damage theory, after the calculation of the statistical amplitude of mooring tension induced by lowfrequency and wavefrequency wave and the damaged mooring breaking strength, the safety assessment for the fatigue life of a semisubmersible platform’s mooring system in extended service was finished. The research result indicates that secondorder resonant motion is the main ingredient that induces the mooring fatigue damage and the damaged mooring breaking strength has a great impact on mooring fatigue safety life. The assessment method of mooring fatigue life in this paper is applicable in similar assessment for other floating platform mooring in extended service.

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