Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University ›› 2017, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (2): 209-.

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Analysis of Extreme Air Gaps of a SemiSubmersible Using #br# Method of LHMoments

LIU Shuanga,b,XIAO Longfeia,b,KOU Yufenga   

  1. a. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering; b. Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship
    and DeepSea Exploration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Online:2017-02-28 Published:2017-02-28

Abstract:

For a semisubmersible operated in water at a depth of 1.5km, the sample data of the relative wave crests at different locations from an experiment were assumed to follow a twoparameter Weibull distribution and the method of LHmoments was used to estimate the parameters. Then, the exceedance probability distributions for different orders of LHmoments were obtained. The results show that as the order of LHmoments increases, the twoparameter Weibull distribution yields better trend of the large relative wave crests under the 1yearreturn sea state, and clearly a better fit of the large relative wave crests under the 100yearreturn sea state.

Key words: semisubmersible, air gap, twoparameter Weibull distribution, LHmoments, exceedance probability distribution

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