The Proceedings of The Tenth (2000) International OFFSHORE AND POLAR ENGINEERING CONFERENCE VOLUME 1 To Use this Table of Contents: Scroll down or use the bookmarks in the left-hand frame to move to a new location in this index. Click on a blue paper title to view that paper. To return to this index after viewing a paper, click the PREVIOUS MENU bookmark in the left frame. The Material on this CD-ROM was created from scanning each author’s paper originals. Viewing of the text and graphics and the ease of readability will depend largely on content requiring scanning and the quality and/or consistency of each author’s paper original. edited by: Jin S. Chung, ISOPE, Cupertino, California, USA Robert MW Frederking, National Research Council, Canada, Ottawa, Canada Hiroshi Saeki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wataru Koterayama, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan presented at; The Tenth (2000) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference held in Seattle, USA, May 28-June 2, 2000 organized by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers sponsored by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) with cooperating societies and associations TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Harsh Environments FPSO Development for Terra Nova G.V. Lever and J.R. Kean ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Phase II Research of Mega-Float Hidetoshi Sueoka and Chiaki Sato. 10 Assessment of Technology for Mobile Offshore Base Robert Zueck, Robert Taylor and Paul Palo ............................................................................................................ 17 PLENARY PRESENTATION Research and Development Challenges in Subsea Technology Past and Future Jostein Aleksandersen and Christian Bull Eriksson ................................................................................................. 23 OFFSHORE MECHANICS MOB AND MEGA-FLOAT At-Sea Towing of Mega-Float Unit Shoichi Hara, Kenji Yamakawa, Kunihiro Hoshino and Kazuhiro Yukawa .......................................................... . 26 Assessment of the Construction Feasibility of the Mobile Offshore Base William J. Bender and Bilal M. Ayyub ...................................................................................................................... 34 MOB Transit Draft Transient Dynamics and Stability J. Falzarano, J. Cheng, S. Das, W. Rodrigues and R. Vassilev ............................................................................... 42 Wave Drift Force and Moment on a VLFS Supported by a Great Number of Floating Columns Masashi Kashiwagi .................................................................................................................................................... 49 Simplified Equation for Estimating Added Mass Distribution over Large Floating Structures Takuji Hamamoto, Shigehiro Sekine and Ken-ichi Fujita ........................................................................................ 57 An Efficient Time-Domain Analysis of Very Large Multi-Body Floating Structures C.J. Garrison ............................................................................................................................................................. 65 Application of the Ray Theory to Hydroelastic Behavior of VLFS Ken Takagi and Katsuyuki Kohara ........................................................................................................................... 72 Hydroelastic Analysis of a Very Large Floating Structure in Waves H. Shin, H.Y. Lee, Y.S. Yang, H.S. Shin and I.K. Park ............................................................................................. 78 An Interaction Problem of Structure and Fluid Flow for a Half Cylinder Membrane Structure Tatsuo Nishikawa, Koji Masaoka, Yusuke Tahara and Yoji Himeno ..................................................................... . 86 Hydroelastic Calculations of Viscous Flow Around a Cylinder-Spring System ZhiXing Yu and YingZhong Liu ................................................................................................................................. 94 Nonlinear Analysis on the Interaction of Waves and Flexible Floating Structure Xiaodong Liu and Shigeki Sakai ............................................................................................................................. 101 Air Gap Predictions of a Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) Using Linear and Non-Linear Hydrodynamic Analysis Woei-Min Lin, Thomas Treakle, Kenneth Weems and Sheguang Zhang ............................................................... 109 SYSTEMS AND DESIGN Comparative Fatigue Performance of Alternative Outer Hull Connection Details — Part I: Procedure, Particulars, and Modeling Brian Healy and Tom Thomsen ............................................................................................................................... 116 Comparative Fatigue Performance of Alternative Outer Hull Connection Details — Part II: Results and Discussion Brian Healyand Tom Thomsen ................................................................................................................................ 126 Effects of Various Stiffeners on Offshore Steel Jacket Strength Choong Y. Son, Chul H. Jo, Kang S. Lee and In H. Hwang .................................................................................. 135 The Development of a Pan and Tilt Actuator Mechanism - from Concept to Application A. Meikle, W.M. Banks and I. Paterson .................................................................................................................. 143 The Simplified Numerical Analysis of Deformed Thin-Walled Tubular Piles S. Cai and A.J. Deeks ............................................................................................................................................... 147 Near-Resonance of Diffraction Waves by an Array of Plates on Shallow Water in Oblique Waves Takashi Tsubogo ...................................................................................................................................................... 154 Numerical Aspects of Multiple Body Hydrodynamics P. Teigen .................................................................................................................................................................. 165 Numerical Investigation of Slowly Varying Drift Forces of Multiple Floating Bodies in Short Crested Irregular Waves Yoshiyuki Inoue and M. Rafiqul Islam .................................................................................................................... 174 STRUCTURES AND DESIGN Engineering Considerations for a Floating Swing Arch Bridge in the Port of Osaka Eiichi Watanabe, Shigeru Ueda, Tadaaki Maruyama, Hiroshi Tanaka and Sumio Takeda ................................ 183 On Some Research Issues Related to Requalification of Fixed Steel Jacket Structures Ove T. Gudmestad and Katrine Hansen ................................................................................................................. 191 Experimental Determination of the Hydrodynamic Loading on a Model of Offshore Platform in Waves and Current Antonio C. Mendes, Roumen Kishev, John R. Chaplin and Stefan Tomchev ........................................................ 196 Experimental Study on Wave Loads and Responses of a Barge-Mounted Plant with Dolphin– Fender Mooring System Yoon-Rak Choi, Seok-Won Hong, Hyun-Joe Kim and Jin-Ha Kim ....................................................................... 204 Green Water on Norwegian Production Ships Gerhard Ersdal and Arne Kvitrud .......................................................................................................................... 211 Motion Analysis of a New Semi-Dode Multi-Purpose Offshore Platform Yen Huang and “Joseph” M.H. Kim ...................................................................................................................... 219 The Integrated Use of GIS and Virtual Reality Techniques: a Campos Basin Case G.G. Cunha, C.L.N. dos Santos, L.F.N. Mello and L. Landau ............................................................................... 227 Model Experiments on Dynamic Positioning System Using Gain Scheduled Controller Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kajiwara,Wataru Koterayama, Tadahiro Hyakudome and Masanori Mochizuki ................................................................................................................................................ 233 Random Vibration Excitation Study of a Model Offshore Structure: A Damage Detection Approach Fa Jyh Huang and M.S. Leong ................................................................................................................................ 241 Experimental Research on the Behavior of Platforms in the Adriatic Sea O. Spadaccini, A. Vignoli and R. Zavattiero ........................................................................................................... 247 Structural Analysis of an Offshore Oil Artificial Island Yongning Gu, XinzhongLi, Weigang Chen and Xiaoqing Teng ............................................................................. 253 FPSO, TLP AND SPAR Potentialities of Application of SPAR Type Platforms in Arctic Conditions E. Toropov, A. Gintovt and D. Mirzoev .................................................................................................................. 257 Dynamics of a Spar Platform Mehernosh B. Irani, Thomas Rouckout and Robert P. Johnson ............................................................................ 261 Measurement of the Instantaneous Characteristics of Natural Response Modes of a Spar Platform Subjected to Irregular Wave Loading L.M. Teisseire, M.G. Delafoy, D.A. Jordan, R.W. Miksad, D.C. Weggel and J.M. Roesset ................................. 269 The Influence of Edge Sharpness on the Heave Damping Forces Experienced by a TLP Column Longbin Tao and Krish Thiagarajan ...................................................................................................................... 277 Comparison of Tether Responses for Two Similar Wellhead TLPs with Different Stiff Natural Periods Øyvind Johnsen, Birger J. Natvig and Stig Bøtker ................................................................................................. 283 A Study on Mini Tension Leg Platform for Marginal Oil Fields in Medium Water Runpei Li, Yongning Gu and Yingbin Bao .............................................................................................................. 290 Coupled Dynamics of Tether and Platform for a North Sea Wellhead TLP Birger J. Natvig and Øyvind Johnsen ..................................................................................................................... 295 A Dynamic Analysis of FPSO-Shuttle Tanker System Dong H. Lee and Hang S. Choi ............................................................................................................................... 302 Effect of the Roll Center Position on the Roll Damping of FPSO In-kyu Park, Hyun-Soo Shin, Jong-Wook Kim and Jin-Wook Cho ........................................................................ 308 Terra Nova FPSO: Integration of Model Tests and Global Analysis Arun S. Duggal, Caspar N. Heyl and Peter F. Poranski ........................................................................................ 312 Petrobras Experience on the Operation of FPSOs Carlos Ferraz Mastrangelo and Carlos Cunha Dias Henriques ........................................................................... 318 Petrobras Experience on the Mooring of Conventional Shuttle Tankers to Dynamically Positioned FPSOs Carlos Cunha Dias Henriques ................................................................................................................................ 323 Parametric Study of Intervention System in Ultra-Deepwater up to 3000m Using Passive Heave Compensation M.B. Cerqueira, A.C. Fernandes and S.H. Sphaier ................................................................................................ 331 Maneuvering Model for the FPSO Horizontal Plane Behavior S.H. Sphaier, A.C. Fernandes and S.H. Correa ..................................................................................................... 337 ENERGY, RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OCEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY Experimental Investigation of CA9 Blades on a 0.3m Wells Turbine Rig A. Thakker, P. Frawley, E.Sheik Bajeet and A. Heffernan ..................................................................................... 345 Comparative Study of Performances of Turbines for Wave Power Conversion T. Setoguchi, M. Takao, Y. Kinoue, K. Kaneko and M. Inoue ................................................................................ 351 Aeroelastic Divergence Investigation of a Wells Turbine Blade R. Curran, J.A.P. de Visser, A. Rothwell and S.G. Sterling ................................................................................... 358 Use of Oscillation Constraints in Providing a Reaction for Deep Water Floating Wave Energy Devices Umesh A. Korde ....................................................................................................................................................... 366 The Offshore Floating Type Wave Power Device “Mighty Whale”: Open Sea Tests Y. Washio, H. Osawa, Y. Nagata, F. Fujii, H. Furuyama and T. Fujita ................................................................ 373 The Performance of Wells Turbine with 3D Guide Vanes M. Takao, T. Setoguchi, T.H. Kim, K. Kaneko and M. Inoue ................................................................................. 381 An Assessment of 3D Boundary Element Methods for Response Prediction of Generic OWCs Y.M.C. Delauré and A. Lewis .................................................................................................................................. 387 Experimental Results for the Wave Rotor Wave Energy Device C.H. Retzler .............................................................................................................................................................. 394 Output of Electric Power from Pneumatic Wave Power Generation System with Water Valve Rectifier Keiichi Ueki, Kiyofumi Ishizawa and Hiroyuki Nakagawa .................................................................................... 399 Development of the Wave Energy Converter – Wave Dragon Jens Peter Kofoed, Peter Frigaard, Hans Christian Sørenson and Erik Friis-Madsen ....................................... 405 Numerical Analysis of Impulse Turbine for Wave Energy Conversion Tae-Sik Kim, Hyeong-Gu Lee, Ill-Kyoo Park, Yeon-Won Lee, Yoichi Kinoue and Toshiaki Setoguchi .............. 413 Maxiumum Wave-Energy Absorption by Oscillating Systems Consisting of Bodies and Water Columns with Restricted or Unrestricted Amplitudes J. Falnes ................................................................................................................................................................... 420 Numerical Analysis of Flow Characteristics in a Wells Turbine for Wave Power Conversion Hyeong-Gu Lee, Jeong-Hwan Kim, Yeon-Won Lee, Toshiaki Setoguchi and Chang-Soo Kang ......................... 427 Multidisciplinary Design for Performance: Ocean Wave Energy Conversion R. Curran, Tom Denniss and C. Boake ................................................................................................................... 434 Preliminary 3D Computational Fluids Dynamics Analysis of the Wells Turbine A. Thakker, P. Frawley, J. Daly and E. Sheik Bajeet ............................................................................................. 442 A 2D CFD Study of Symmetrical Airfoils PART I: in Isolated Flow A. Thakker, P. Frawley and J. Daly ........................................................................................................................ 452 A 2D CFD Study of Symmetrical Airfoils PART II: in Cascade Flow A. Thakker, P. Frawley, J. Daly and Y. Abughailia ................................................................................................ 459 Numerical Simulation of 3-D Stall Mechanism on Wells Turbine for Wave-Power Generating System M. Suzuki and C. Arakawa ...................................................................................................................................... 465 Counter-Rotating Type Machine Suitable for Tidal Current Power Generation T. Kanemoto, D. Tanaka, T. Kashiwabara, M. Uno and M. Nemoto ................................................................ 472 Site Assessment Methodology for Offshore Tidal Current Plants: A Preliminary Investigation D. E. Dimla Snr., I.G. Bryden and K.G. Rados ................................................................................................. 478 Middelgrunden 40 MW Offshore Wind Farm, A Prestudy for the Danish Offshore 750 MW Wind Program H.C. Soerensen, J.H. Larsen, F.A. Olsen, J. Svenson and S.R. Hansen ............................................................ 484 Assessment of Combined Extreme Load Conditions for Offshore Wind Energy Converters P.W. Cheng and G.J.W. van Bussel ................................................................................................................... 492 Wave-Energy Application to Water Pump and Its Systems of Utilization - Fish Meat Improving and Production Systems Powered by Wave-Energy Pumps Katsuyuki Kawaguty, Mutsuyoshi Tsuchimoto and Hironobu Ueki .................................................................. 499 DEEP-OCEAN MINING A Consideration on Size Distribution of Resuspended Deep-Sea Sediments T. Yamazaki, E. Kuboki, H. Yoshida and T. Suzuki ................................................................................................ 507 An Experimental Study on Lab Scale Air-Lift Pump Flowing Solid-Liquid-Air Three-Phase Mixture Chi Ho Yoon, Kwang Soo Kwon, Ou Kwang Kwon, Seok Ki Kwon, In Kee Kim, Dong Kil Lee and Hi Sun Lee ......................................................................................................................................................... 515 An Experimental Study on Route Tracking of Deep Sea Mining Vessel Hyun-Joe Kim, Sa Y. Hong and Sup Hong ............................................................................................................. 522 ENVIRONMENT Experimental Study of a Recovery Method of Spilled Oil Trapped Under a Rubble Ice Field Natsuhiko Otsuka, Norihiro Usami, Koji Ogiwara, Tetsuya Hayakawa and Hiroshi Saeki ................................ 529 Development of Hydrodynamic Module in the Specialized Information Analytical Systems Alexander S. Tsvetsinsky, Boris V. Arkhipov and Vicheslav V. Solbakov .............................................................. 535 The Modeling of Potential Ground Water Contamination in Eskisehir Region M. Tombul, M. Bilgin and M. Tuncan ..................................................................................................................... 540 POLAR AND ICE ENGINEERING JAPAN OCEAN INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION: ICE RESEARCH Ice and Earthquake Loads on a Structure in the Okhotsk Sea: Annual Report of the JOIA Project, FY1998 Kazuyuki Kato, Kazuhiko Kamesaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masaaki Mito, Tetsuro Kawasaki, Naoki Nakazawa and Akira Kurokawa ................................................................................... 545 Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Response of an Ice-Surrounded Structure During Earthquake T. Iwasa, M. Mito and Y. Okubo ............................................................................................................................. 552 Behaviour of Sand Seabed Underneath a Gravity Offshore Structure Subjected to Ice Load and Seismic Force M. Hyodo, S. Yamamoto, K. Fukuda, K. Kamesaki and Y. Yamauchi ................................................................... 555 Medium Scale Field Indentation Tests: Physical Characteristics of First-Year Sea Ice at Notoro Lagoon, Hokkaido Zenji Kamio, Toru Takawaki, Hisao Matsushita, Takahiro Takeuchi, Masafumi Sakai, Takashi Terashima, Satoshi Akagawa, Naoki Nakazawa and Hiroshi Saeki .................................................... 562 Experimental Study on Ice-Structure Interaction During Earthquakes Y. Yamauchi and K. Kamesaki, ...........................................................................................................................569 Consideration of Failure Mode of a Sea Ice Sheet Hisao Matsushita, Zenji Kamio, Masafumi Sakai, Takahiro Takeuchi, Takashi Terashima, Satoshi Akagawa, Naoki Nakazawa and Hiroshi Saeki ..................................................................................... 577 ICE TECHNOLOGY AND REMOTE SENSING Ice Load Uncertainties - Progress in Their Resolution K.R. Croasdale and T. Brown ................................................................................................................................. 583 Design and Cost Study of Gravity-Based Substructure in the Sea of Okhotsk K. Kamesaki, K. Shimazaki, K. Kasui, H. Matsumoto, R. Frederking, G.W. Timco, M. Sayed and J. Tseng ........ 589 Rubble Pile Observations D.C. Mayne and T.G. Brown ................................................................................................................................... 596 Experimental Study on Vertical Ice Loads Acting on Multi-Leg Structures Takashi Terashima, Takaharu Kawai, Naoki Nakazawa, Norihiro Usami and Hiroshi Saeki ............................ 600 Examination of Factors Affecting Total Ice Load Using Medium Scale Field Indentation Test Data Takahiro Takeuchi, Satoshi Akagawa, Muneo Kawamura, Masafumi Sakai, Naoki Nakazawa, Takashi Terashima, Zenji Kamio, Hisao Matsushita, Hideyuki Nishimaki, Akira Kurokawa, Ken-ichi Hirayama and Hiroshi Saeki .................................................................................................................... 607 Ice Failure Mode Predominantly Producing Peak-Ice-Load Observed in Continuous Ice Load Records Satoshi Akagawa, Naoki Nakazawa, Masafumi Sakai, Hisao Matsushita, Takashi Terashima, Takahiro Takeuchi and Hiroshi Saeki ..................................................................................................................... 613 Formation of Ice Compression and Ice Divergence Zones on the North-East Sakhalin Shelf Under Tidal Ice Drift Erwin N. Kalinin, Vladimir N. Astafiev and Stepan V. Zemliuk ............................................................................. 621 Ice Gouge Measurement Strategy J.P. Poplin, A.T. Wang and C.B. Leidersdorf ......................................................................................................... 626 A Method for Calculation of Ice Ridge Crack Loads on a Multifaceted Conical Structure Mark Z. Wang .......................................................................................................................................................... 633 Sea Ice Floe Impacts – Large Scale Basin Experiments Robert Frederking and Gary Timco ........................................................................................................................ 640 Anisotropy of Sea Ice Strength Characteristics in the Okhotsk Sea G.A. Surkov, S.V. Zemliuk, V.N. Astafiev and A.M. Polomoshnov, ......................................................................... 646 Hummocking of Ices in the Bering Sea Lev P. Yakunin and Ilia N. Moskalev ...................................................................................................................... 649 An Analytical Model for Wave Propagation Across a Crack in an Ice Sheet Vernon A. Squire and Tony W. Dixon ................................................................................................................ 652 Numerical Simulation of Broken Ice Cover Forces on Structures: a Parametric Study Mohamed Sayed, Robert Frederking and Anne Barker ..................................................................................... 656 Field Strength Properties of a Flooded Sea Ice Road Daniel M. Masterson and Kenneth E. Yockey ................................................................................................... 663 Evaluation of Seismic Load on Offshore Structure in Ice-Covered Waters Hiroshi Kobayashi and Hiroyasu Kawaguchi ................................................................................................... 674 Mechanical Parameters of the Okhotsk Sea Ice Cover G.A. Surkov, S.V. Zemliuk, V.N. Astafiev and P.A. Truskov .............................................................................. 679 Dynamic Positioning Operation in Ice, Offshore Sakhalin, May - June 1999 Arno Keinonen, Hal Wells, Peter Dunderdale, Roger Pilkington, Gordon Miller and Alexander Brovin ....... 683 Satellite Radar Ice Monitoring for Ice Navigation of a Tanker Convoy in the Kara Sea L.H. Pettersson, S. Sandven, Ø. Dalen, V.V. Melentyev and N.I. Babich .............................................................. 691 Observing Pack Ice Properties with a Helicopter-Borne Video-Laser-GPS Sensor L. Lalumiere, S. Prinsenberg and I. Peterson ......................................................................................................... 697 Spread Footing Settlements at the Endicott Facility Daniel M. Masterson and Mark F. Masterson ....................................................................................................... 704 ICE SHELL - Recent Application to Winter Architecture Tsutomu Kokawa, Koji Watanabe and Osamu Itoh ............................................................................................... 716 Azimuth and Multi Purpose Icebreaker Technology for Arctic and Non-Arctic Offshore Arno Keinonen and Paavo Lohi .............................................................................................................................. 722 ADDITIONAL PAPERS Effects of Plant Growth and Development on Interannaul Variability in Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulations Elena Tsvetsinskaya, Linda O. Mearns and William E. Easterling ....................................................................... 729 Analysis of Various Designs of the Stationary Platform Substructures for the Pechora Sea Shelf E.N. Bellendir and E.E. Toropov ............................................................................................................................. 737 Numerical Modelling of OWC–Shoreline Devices Including the Effect of Surrounding Coastline and Non-flat Bottom A. Brito-Melo, T. Hoffmann, A.J.N.R. Sarmento, A.H. Clément and G. Delhommeau ...................................... 743 Evaluation of Ice Forces Acting on Sea Bed Due to Ice Scouring S. Kioka, Y. Yasunaga, Y. Watanabe and H. Saeki ............................................................................................ 749 The Proceedings of The Tenth (2000) International OFFSHORE AND POLAR ENGINEERING CONFERENCE VOLUME 2 To Use this Table of Contents: Scroll down or use the bookmarks in the left-hand frame to move to a new location in this index. Click on a blue paper title to view that paper. To return to this index after viewing a paper, click the PREVIOUS MENU bookmark in the left frame. 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Chung, ISOPE, Cupertino, California, USA Robert MW Frederking, National Research Council, Canada, Ottawa, Canada Hiroshi Saeki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wataru Koterayama, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan presented at; The Tenth (2000) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference held in Seattle, USA, May 28-June 2, 2000 organized by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers sponsored by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) with cooperating societies and associations RISERS, MOORING AND CABLE MECHANICS 3-D Responses of Vertical Pipe Bottom Pin-Joined to a Horizontal Pipe to Ship Motion and Thrust on Pipe — Part II: Comparison of MSE and FEM Results (A) Jin S. Chung ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Review of Design Criteria for Deepwater Risers and Mooring Systems in a Multidirectional Environment R.M.C. Silva, C.E. Parente, J.M. Vasconcellos, B.P. Jacob and A.C. Fernandes .................................................... 8 Memory Effects on Dynamics of Risers for Upwelling Deep Ocean Water Koji Otsuka, Akiyoshi Bando and Yoshiho Ikeda .................................................................................................... . 15 Identification of Modes of VIV on a Drilling Riser from Measurements of Acceleration and Rate of Rotation Karl E. Kaasen ........................................................................................................................................................... 23 Deflection of Flexible Risers Subjected to Ocean Currents G.K. Furnes ................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Assessment of Alternative Approaches for the Representation of Torque and Twist in Pipeline and Riser Analysis T.P. Mullarkey, J.F. McNamara and, D.W. Lang .................................................................................................... 37 Hydrate and Wax Prevention of Risers by Electrical Heating Vidar Henrik Halvorsen, Jens Kristian Lervik and Gunnar Klevjer ....................................................................... 42 Fatigue Design of Risers: An Improved Methodology Incorporating a Transverse Hydrodynamic Force Model O.B. Sertã, S.H. Sphaier and A.C. Fernandes .......................................................................................................... 49 A Parametric Analysis of Steel Catenary Risers: Fatigue Behavior Near the Top C.A. Martins, E. Higashi and R.M.C. Silva .............................................................................................................. 54 Combined Riser-Bundle-Template Installed by Controlled Depth Tow Method Christian Knutsen ...................................................................................................................................................... 60 Statistical Variability in PET Fiber Physical Properties Forrest Sloan and Jeff Funderburk ........................................................................................................................... 68 Experimental and Numerical Study on Deep Sea Mooring of Ocean Observation Platform Wataru Koterayama, Masahiko Nakamura, Naoyuki Takatsu and Tetsuro Ikebuchi. ............................................. 73 A Comparative Analysis Between Analytical and FE-Based Models for Flexible Pipes Subjected to Axisymmetric Loads R. Ramos Jr., C.P. Pesce and C.A. Martins .............................................................................................................. 80 A New Concept of Multipoint Mooring System Fan Weathervane Multipoint Counterweight Mooring (FWMCM) Jie-cheng Chen ........................................................................................................................................................... 89 Studies on the Dynamics of Truncated Mooring Line Xiaohong Chen, Jun Zhang, Peter Johnson and Mehernosh Irani .......................................................................... 94 PIPELINES Bundle Pipeline Installation Technique for a Curved Route Chul H. Jo, B.H. Han, W.J. Song, I.S.Jang and C.W. Park ................................................................................... 102 Submerged Floating Pipeline in Deep Water Gunnar Paulsen, Tore H. Søreide and Finn Gunnar Nielsen ................................................................................ 108 Remotely Controlled Pipeline Isolation System Jostein Aleksandersen and Edd Tveit ...................................................................................................................... 115 Design Methodology for Upgrading of Pipeline Transport Systems, Case Studies Hroar Nes, Lars Sortland, Ketil Kathrud and Svein Terje Kolstad ....................................................................... 120 Experiment on Formation Rate of Methane Hydrate T. Arai, Y. Kato, T. Ebinuma, T. Uchida, H. Narita and K. Matsuo ...................................................................... 127 Testing of Instrumentation for the Identification of Wax in a Hydrocarbon Pipeline G.H. Smith, E.H. Owens, R. Snodgrass and D. Russell .......................................................................................... 131 The Smart Acquisition and Analysis Module (SAAM) for Pipeline Inspection D. Russell, R. Snodgrass and G.H. Smith ............................................................................................................... 137 A Method to Obtain High Reliability for Mechanical Pipeline Couplings Tore Mellem ............................................................................................................................................................. 141 FEA-Based Seabed Intervention Design for Pipeline Bundle System Ruxin Song, Christian Knutsen and Gang Dong .................................................................................................... 147 On the Interaction of Pipe Lines on the Seabed K.G. Rados, D. Pitt, D.M. Macfarlane and D.E. Dimla Snr. .................................................................................. 155 Numerical Modeling of Gas Leakage of Pipeline Under Seawater Bao-Shi Shiau ........................................................................................................................................................... 162 Collapse of UOE Manufactured Steel Pipes A.M. Gresnigt, R.J. van Foeken and Shilin Chen ................................................................................................... 170 Residual Strength of Dented Pipelines, DNV Test Results O.H. Bjørnøy, Ole Rengård, Stein Fredheim and Patrick Bruce ........................................................................... 182 Residual Strength of Corroded Pipelines, DNV Test Results O.H. Bjørnøy, G. Sigurdsson and E. Cramer ......................................................................................................... 189 Steady-State Buckle Propagation in Corroded Pipelines Michelle S. Hoo Fatt, Yi L. Liu and Jianghong Xue ............................................................................................... 197 A New Buckle Arrestor for Reeled Pipe-in-Pipe Antoine H. Bastard .................................................................................................................................................. 205 Non-Equilibrium Sediment Transport Process of Local Scour Around Pipelines Fangjun Li and Liang Cheng .................................................................................................................................. 212 Subsea Pipeline Stability in Various Trench Sections Chul H. Jo, Kyung-Su Kim and Sung G. Hong ....................................................................................................... 218 In-Service Buckling of Submarine Pipelines with an Arbitrary Initial Out-of-Straightness S. Kapuria, V.Y. Salpekar and S. Sengupta ............................................................................................................. 226 Finite Element Based Fracture Assessment of HP/HT Subsea Pipelines T. Sriskandarajah, G. Anurudran and P. Ragupathy ............................................................................................. 234 Materials and Design of High Strength Pipelines Yong Bai, Gerhard Knauf and Hans-Georg Hillenbrand ...................................................................................... 244 Bending Moment Capacity of Groove Corroded Pipes Søren Hauch and Yong Bai ..................................................................................................................................... 253 Assessment of Pipeline Girth Weld Defects Miaomou J. Chen, Gang Dong, Rolf A. Jakobsen and Yong Bai ........................................................................... 263 Case Studies in Pipeline Free Span Fatigue Angus Reid, Trond I. Grytten and Per R. Nystrøm ................................................................................................. 275 Risk-Based Inspection and Integrity Management of Pipeline Systems John Willcocks and Yong Bai .................................................................................................................................. 285 UNDERWATER VEHICLES AND CONTROL CFD Modelling of a Novel Electromagnetic Tip-Driven Thruster A.W. Hughes, S.R. Turnock and S.Abu Sharkh ...................................................................................................... 294 Design and Testing of a Novel Electromagnetic Tip-Driven Thruster A.W. Hughes, S. Abu Sharkh and S.R. Turnock ...................................................................................................... 299 Ice-Penetrating Communication Buoy for AUV Operating in the Arctic Armen Bahlavouni, Douglas Andersen and Peter J. Stein ..................................................................................... 304 Dynamics and Control Simulator for the Theseus AUV Mae L. Seto and George D. Watt ............................................................................................................................ 308 Design of an Underwater Vehicle-Mounted Manipulator System and Non-Regressor Based Adaptive Control Seok-Won Hong, Pan-Mook Lee, Bong-Hwan Jeon and Chong-Moo Lee ............................................................ 314 Dynamic Simulation of a Multi-Cable Underwater Towed System Guoliang Huang and Jun Lu ................................................................................................................................... 320 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING PLENARY PRESENTATION The Strongest Chi-Chi Earthquake of the Century in Taiwan Robert Y.P. Chin ...................................................................................................................................................... 326 FOUNDATION Centrifuge Modelling on Suction Piles Under Cyclic and Long Term Vertical Loading H.G.B. Allersma, A.A. Kierstein and D. Maes ........................................................................................................ 334 A Theoretical Study of the Vertical Uplift Capacity of Suction Caissons W. Deng and J.P. Carter ......................................................................................................................................... 342 The Effect on Installation on the Pullout Capacity of Ground Anchor I. Zakaria .................................................................................................................................................................. 350 Development and Validation of Mooring Line Analysis in Cohesive Seafloor S. Bang, H. Han and R.J. Taylor ............................................................................................................................. 355 Modelling the Vertical Response of Untrenched Offshore Pipelines J. Zhang, D.P. Stewart and M.F. Randolph ............................................................................................................ 360 Bearing Capacity of Unsaturated Oil-Contaminated Sand Eun Chul Shin and Braja M. Das ............................................................................................................................ 368 Mechanism of Slurry Trench Wall Stability in Soft Clay Grounds Satoshi Fukui, Tomio Tamano and Tamotsu Matsui .............................................................................................. 374 Dynamic Behavior of Buried Water Pipe with a Ball Type Flexible Joint in Liquefied Ground Yasuo Tanaka, Akio Kuruma, Tsuyoshi Asada and Yoshihiro Mizoguchi ............................................................. 381 Design Concept and Some Case Histories of Steel Grid Reinforced Earth Wall Kenzo Uchihata, Norihiko Sakata, Noriyasu Ogawa, Tamotsu Matsui and Yasuyuki Nabeshima ...................... 386 The Behavior of PC-Pile Group Subjected to Lateral Loading Sheng-Huoo Ni and Ming-Jen Chuang ................................................................................................................... 391 Consolidation Parameters from Axial Pile Load Tests U.A.A. Mirza ............................................................................................................................................................ 395 A Case Study on the Application of Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) and CAPWAP Analysis to Bearing Capacity of Piles Kazem Fakharian ..................................................................................................................................................... 403 Deep Penetrating Anchor: Further Development, Optimization and Capacity Verification Jon Tore Lieng, Arne Kavli, Frode Hove and Tor Inge Tjelta ............................................................................... 410 Model Tests of Borehole Excavation for Enlarged-Bottom Cast-in-Place Pile Masanobu Kanaoka, Tran Thi Hong, Nguyen Hoang Quan and Tomio Tamano ................................................ 417 SOIL PROPERTIES AND TREATMENT Jumbo Piston Coring in Deep Water Gulf of Mexico for Seabed Geohazard and Geotechnical Investigations Armand J. Silva and William R. Bryant .................................................................................................................. 424 Drained Test Simulations for Clay by Strain Path Controlled Mini-Triaxial Test Device Y. Nabeshima, K. Oda and T. Matsui ...................................................................................................................... 434 Sedimentation State of Ariake Clays in Japan Zhenshun Hong and Takashi Tsuchida ................................................................................................................... 438 Consolidation Characteristics of Osaka Pleistocene Clay by Separated-Type Consolidometer M.S. Kang and T. Tsuchida ..................................................................................................................................... 444 A Case Study on the Slope Instability of Coastal Park in Southern Taiwan D.H. Hsiao and L.J. Huang ..................................................................................................................................... 448 A Study on Small Strain Shear Modulus of Undisturbed Soft Marine Clays Dinesh R. Shiwakoti, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masanori Tanaka and Osamu Mishima ................................................. 455 A Portable Percussion Probe for In Situ Characterization of Marine Carbonate Sands and Other Sediments M.J. Cruickshank, T.A. Shimabukuro and R.H. Knapp .......................................................................................... 461 Ultimate Capacities of Suction Caissons and Pile Elements for Deepwater Applications William O. McCarron and Beena Sukumaran ........................................................................................................ 466 Consolidation and Strength Properties of Calcareous Sediments from Kaneohe and Kailua Bays, Hawaii Horst G. Brandes, Nandkumar H. Khadge and Devin D. Nakayama ................................................................... 470 Electrochemical Treatment of Polluted Soils A.M.O. Mohamed ..................................................................................................................................................... 477 Evaluating Undrained Shear Strength Using the Vane Shear Apparatus P.G. Watson, N. Suemasa and M.F. Randolph ....................................................................................................... 485 Evaluation of the Liquefaction Potential of Calcareous Sand B.T. Morioka and P.G. Nicholson ........................................................................................................................... 494 Size and Shape of Tamper’s Base in Dynamic Compaction of Loose Sands T.W. Feng, K.H. Chen and Y.T. Su .......................................................................................................................... 501 Using Multi-Neural Network to Estimate the Screening Effect of Surface Waves by In-Filled Trenches Sheng-Huoo Ni and Chang-Chi Hung .................................................................................................................... 506 SOIL IMPROVEMENT Soft Ground Improvement by Paper, Pack and Menard Drains H.I. Chung, H.S. Jin and K.N. Jin ........................................................................................................................... 514 Self-Weight Consolidation Behaviour of Dredged Clay Improved by Plastic Board Drain Ken-ichi Sato, Nobuo Yoshida and Tadaaki Nomura ............................................................................................. 520 Stability of Refuse Landfill Reinforced by Stone Columns B.W. Shin, B.J. Lee, J.S. Yoon and W.S. Bae .......................................................................................................... 524 Stability of Rubble Mounds on Soft Grounds Improved by Deep Soil Mixing Method W. P. Hong and Y.S. Song ....................................................................................................................................... 530 Properties and Applicability of Filling Material for Compaction Pile Method Hideo Tsuboi, Kenji Harada, Minoru Yamamoto and Tamotsu Matsui ................................................................ 538 Dredged Sludge Treated by Cement: Mechanical Resistance, Porosity and Leaching Properties Analysis D. Levacher, M. Boutouil and F. Rey ..................................................................................................................... 544 Underground River Tunnel for Flood Control by Shield Tunneling H. Miyao, Y. Kamoshita, M. Kanai and K. Fukumoto ............................................................................................ 550 EARTHQUAKES AND SOIL MECHANICS Seismic Ground Settlement and Microtremore Property in Reclaimed Lands due to the 1995 Kobe Earthquake Kiyoshi Hayakawa, Tamotsu Matsui and Kenji Harada ........................................................................................ 558 Liquefaction-Induced Permanent Deformation of Embankments on Sand Deposits by On-Line Seismic Response Tests T. Fujii, M. Hyodo, K. Fukuda and S. Kusakabe .................................................................................................... 564 Seismic Behavior of Caisson-Type Foundation in Clayey Ground During the Earthquake Using the Centrifuge Shaking Test Takeshi Satoh, Tamotsu Nagata, Kazuhiro Tshrugasaki, Michio Miyake, Tamotsu Matsui, Akinori Nakahira, Ikuo Aoshima and Hiroshi Murakami ...................................................................................... 570 An Experimental Study on the Stability of Open-Ended Pipe Piles Installed in Deep Sea During the Simulated Seaquake Moon S. Nam and Yongkyu Choi ............................................................................................................................ 576 On Liquefaction Countermeasure in the Soil Around a Caisson Type Quay Wall on Pile Foundation Tomiya Takatani and Yoshi-hiko Maeno ................................................................................................................ 582 Wave-Induced Seabed Instability A. Nanda, M. Paul and S. Bhowal ........................................................................................................................... 590 The Effects of Anisotropy Consolidation on Liquefaction Strength and Deformation for Reclaimed Soil Lien-Kwei Chien, Yan-Nam Oh and Chih-Hsin Chang .......................................................................................... 594 Wave-Induced Sea Bed Liquefaction with Application to Mine Burial N. Gratiot and M. Mory ........................................................................................................................................... 600 Cyclic Shear Behaviour of Marine Clays M. Hyodo, S. Ito, Y. Yamamoto and T. Fujii ........................................................................................................... 606 Dispersion Phenomena of SH-Wave Caused by Obstacle in Layered Soil Strata Jenq-Jy Charng, Shaw-Wen Liu, Yun-Jiunn Yeh and Yan-June Suen ................................................................... 612 FE Analysis for T-Bar and Spherical Penetrometers in Cohesive Soil Q. Lu, Y. Hu and M.F. Randolph ............................................................................................................................ 617 Bounding Surface Plasticity Model for Loose Beach Sand Under Cyclic Loading Robert Yun-Pin Chin ................................................................................................................................................ 624 A New Approach to the Finite Element Slope Stability Analysis Incorporating the Slice and the Pile Deformations Hemanata Hazarika, Yasutaka Terado and Hirohide Hayamizu .......................................................................... 630 Finite Difference Analysis to Obtain the Rate of Consolidation Over a Stress Range Below and Above the Pre-Consolidation Pressure Kazuyasu Shirakawa and Yasuo Tanaka ................................................................................................................ 637 Wave-Induced Seabed Instability M. Miyake and T. Yanagihata ................................................................................................................................. 642 The Rate Effect on pc Value for Nine Undisturbed Marine Clays H. Tanaka, O. Mishima and M. Tanaka .................................................................................................................. 649 ADDITIONAL PAPERS Deepwater Riser Systems: Riser Local Impact H.H. Chan, S.R. Wilmshurst, C.P. Ellinas and T. Moros ....................................................................................... 653 Usage of Cruie Depths for the Determination of Geothermal Areas in the Izmir Bay E. Özel ...................................................................................................................................................................... 661 Inverse Analysis for Elastic Medium with Various Lozenge Cavities Under In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Loadings Masayuki Shozu ....................................................................................................................................................... 665 Modeling of Suction Caisson Foundations Sherif El-Gharbawy and Roy Olson ........................................................................................................................ 670 The Proceedings of The Tenth (2000) International OFFSHORE AND POLAR ENGINEERING CONFERENCE VOLUME 3 To Use this Table of Contents: Scroll down or use the bookmarks in the left-hand frame to move to a new location in this index. Click on a blue paper title to view that paper. 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Chung, ISOPE, Cupertino, California, USA Robert MW Frederking, National Research Council, Canada, Ottawa, Canada Hiroshi Saeki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wataru Koterayama, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan presented at; The Tenth (2000) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference held in Seattle, USA, May 28-June 2, 2000 organized by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers sponsored by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) with cooperating societies and associations METOCEAN AND INTERNAL WAVES METOCEAN Nonlinear Extreme Wave Evolution in Random Wave Groups Carl Trygve Stansberg ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Maxiumum Wave Height Distributions of Nonlinear Narrow Banded Random Waves Nobuhito Mori and Takashi Yasuda ........................................................................................................................... 9 Use of the Hilbert Transform for Random Ocean Wave Statistics Kang Hung Yang, Laurence Z.H. Chuang and C.C. Kao ........................................................................................ 14 Markov Theory for Runs of High Waves Thomas H. Dawson ................................................................................................................................................... . 20 An Experimental Study of the Surface Elevation Probability Distribution Dejun Dai, Zhong Wang and Wei Wang ................................................................................................................... 25 Simulation of Extreme Waves in a Background Random Sea David L. Kriebel and Maria V. Alsina ...................................................................................................................... 31 A Study of the Statistics of Wave Groups John Z. Yim, Chung-Ren Chou and Jaw-Guei Lin ................................................................................................... 38 Time-Frequency Analysis of Dispersive Wave Phenomena YongJune Shin, Andy Chao and Edward J. Powers ................................................................................................. 42 A Simple Formula for Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interaction Alastair D. Jenkins and O.M. Phillips ...................................................................................................................... 50 Spatial Evolution of Laboratory Generated Freak Waves in Deep Water Depth Torsten Schlurmann, Joachim Lengricht and Kai-Uwe Graw ................................................................................. 54 Large-Eddy Simulations for a Free-Surface Turbulent Flow Past Vertical Cylinders Tong Chen, Allen T. Chwang and Daohua Zhang ................................................................................................... 60 A 3-D Composite Model for Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Waves Peng Qi, Zhili Zou, Yongxue Wang and Dahong Qiu .............................................................................................. 68 On the Characteristics of Storm Waves Brian Linfoot, Paul Stansell and Julian Wolfram ..................................................................................................... 74 Some Observed Characteristics of Sea States with Extreme Waves M. Olagnon and S. van Iseghem ............................................................................................................................... 84 Bivariate Simulation of Non-Stationary and Non-Gaussian Observed Processes: Application to Sea State Parameters Valérie Monbet and Marc Prevosto .......................................................................................................................... 91 Generation of Strongly Asymmetric Wave in Random Seaway J. Zou and C.H. Kim .................................................................................................................................................. 95 A Unified Approach to Extreme Value Analysis of Ocean Waves Harald E. Krogstad and Stephen F. Barstow ......................................................................................................... 103 Statistical Properties of Freak Waves Observed in the Sea of Japan Nobuhito Mori, Takashi Yasuda and Shin-ichi Nakayama .................................................................................... 109 Statistical Analysis and Inference from the In-Situ Data of the Sea of Japan with Reference to Abnormal and/or Freak Waves H. Tomita and T. Kawamura ................................................................................................................................... 116 Freak Waves: Rare Realizations of a Typical Population or Typical Realizations of a Rare Population? Sverre Haver and Odd Jan Andersen ...................................................................................................................... 123 The Rayo Network: Implementation and First Results E. Ávarez Fanjul, M. Alfonso and I. Rodriguez ................................................................................................. 131 Statistical Extreme Wave Analysis of the Italian Sea Wave Measurement Network Data in the Period 1989-1999 Stefano Corsini, Franco Guiducci and Roberto Inghilesi ...................................................................................... 137 Baydaratskaya Bay Coastal Climate Conditions in Recent Years Yuriy A. Goryainov and Vladimir N. Kryjov ........................................................................................................... 144 Meteomarine Forecast, Ballast Water and Sail Navigation: A Case Study A. Pezzoli, G. Pezzoli and M. Franza ...................................................................................................................... 149 Modelling of Wind and Wave Joint Occurrence Probability and Persistence Duration from Satellite Observation Data R. Nerzic and M. Prevosto ....................................................................................................................................... 154 REMOTE SENSING Nonlinear Internal Waves in a Two-Liquids System M. La Rocca, G. Sciortino and P. Mele ............................................................................................................. 159 Satellite Studies of Ocean Fronts and Eddies for Deepwater Development in the Norwegian Sea S. Sandven, J.A. Johannessen, K. Kloster, T. Hamre and Hans J. Sætre .......................................................... 166 Nonlinear Internal Tides in the Yellow Sea Tao Wang, Tian-Fu Gao, De-Jun Jiang and Yun-Peng Zhang ......................................................................... 171 HYDRODYNAMICS NUMERICAL WAVE TANK Report of the 2nd Workshop of ISOPE Numerical Wave Tank Group: Benchmark Test Cases of Radiation Problem, (Brest, May 1999) Katsuji Tanizawa and A.H. Clément ....................................................................................................................... 175 Absorption of Outgoing Waves in a Numerical Wave Tank Using a Self-Adaptive Boundary Condition G. Duclos, A.H. Clément and G. Chatry ................................................................................................................. 185 Calculations of Nonlinear Free Surface Flows Around Submerged and Floating Sea Caches Hamn-Ching Chen, Tuanjie Liu and Erick T. Huang ............................................................................................. 193 A Numerical Model for 3-D Floating Body Motion in Nonlinear Waves Using the BEM M. Ikeno .................................................................................................................................................................... 201 An Efficient Finite Difference Scheme for Improved Boussinesq Equations J.M. Zhan and Y.S. Li .............................................................................................................................................. 209 Nonlinear Wave Forces on a Stationary Vertical Cylinder by HOBEM-NWT Sa Y. Hong and M.H. Kim ....................................................................................................................................... 214 Modeling of Overturning Waves over Arbitrary Bottom in a 3D Numerical Wave Tank Stéphan T. Grilli, Philippe Guyenne and Frédéric Dias ........................................................................................ 221 Optimization of Transient Design Waves in Random Sea Günther F. Clauss and Ulrich Steinhagen .............................................................................................................. 229 Estimation of Wave Drift Force by Numerical Wave Tank: 2nd Report Katsuji Tanizawa, Makiko Minami, Hiroshi Sawada and Shigeru Naito .............................................................. 237 Approximate Analytic Solutions and Numerical Wave Tank Results for the Reflection Coefficients of a Class of Numerical Beaches Jaap-Harm Westhuis ............................................................................................................................................... 245 Development of 3-D Fully Nonlinear Numerical Wave Tank to Simulate Floating Bodies Interacting with Water Waves Yosuke Shirakura, Katsuji Tanizawa and Shigeru Naito ....................................................................................... 253 Detection of Wave Breaking in a 2D Viscous Numerical Wave Tank L. Gentaz and B. Alessandrini ................................................................................................................................. 263 Wave Measurement and Transfer Functions Christophe Maisondieu and Marc Le Boulluec ...................................................................................................... 271 FORCES Hydrodynamic Force on a Wall due to Breaking Waves Jian-Jun Shu and Allen T. Chwang ......................................................................................................................... 277 Experimental Evidence of Near-Trapping in an Array of Bottom-Mounted Circular Cylinders in Regular Waves Giorgio Contento, Fabrizio D’Este, Guido Calcagno and Roberto Penna ........................................................... 281 Hydrodynamic Damping of Liquid Sloshing in Ship Tanks Michael Isaacson and Sundaralingam Premasiri .................................................................................................. 288 Boundary Layer Formation Around a Cylinder Subject to Waves Dominique Mouazé and Michel Bélorgey ............................................................................................................... 294 Laboratory Stokes 5th Order Waves and Forces on a Vertical Truncated Cylinder Hitha Alex and C.H. Kim ......................................................................................................................................... 303 Numerical Examination on Third-Order Force on Axisymmetric Bodies Bin Teng and Guo-Hai Dong .................................................................................................................................. 312 Prediction of the Complete Second Order Wave Drift Damping Force for Offshore Structures Styrk Finne, John Grue and Arne Nestegård .......................................................................................................... 320 Nonlinear Wave Diffraction due to a Vertical Structure with Arbitrary Section and Axisymmetric Structure Norimi Mizutani, Takeshi Sanada and Koichiro Iwata .......................................................................................... 328 An Approach on Calculating Mean Drifting Forces Acting on a 3-D Floating Body Under Waves and Currents Tzung-hang Lee and Jing-Liang Chen .................................................................................................................... 336 WAFO - A Matlab Toolbox for Analysis of Random Waves and Loads Per Andreas Brodtkorb, Pär Johannesson, Georg Lindgren, Igor Rychlik, Jesper Rydén and Eva Sjö .............. 343 Inundation Effect of Wave Forces on Jack-Up Platforms C.Y. Liaw .................................................................................................................................................................. 351 Measurement of Axial Hydrodynamic Force on a Yawed Cylinder in a Uniform Stream H.P. Pao, S.C. Ling and T.W. Kao .......................................................................................................................... 356 DYNAMIC RESPONSES Mathematical Modeling of Roll Motion of a Catamaran in Intact and Damage Conditions in Beam Waves Alberto Francescutto ............................................................................................................................................... 362 Nonlinear Effects in Ship Dynamics and Capsizing Edwin Kreuzer and Mareike Wendt ........................................................................................................................ 369 On Freely-Floating Cylinders Fitted with Bilge Keels D. Roddier, S.-W. Liao and R.W. Yeung ................................................................................................................. 377 Planar Motion of a Slightly Distorted Circular Cylinder Around Another Circular One Ren Sun and Allen T. Chwang ................................................................................................................................. 385 Storm Survival of a Tanker Based Floating Production System (FPSO) in a Realistic (Random) Seaway S. Vishnubhotla, J. Falzarano and A. Vakakis ........................................................................................................ 391 Use of Generalized Modes in Hydrodynamic Analysis of Multiple Bodies T. Mathai .................................................................................................................................................................. 396 Nonlinear Model Evaluation via System Identification of a Moored Structural System S. Narayanan and S.C.S. Yim .................................................................................................................................. 402 Effect of Anti-Pitching Fins on Ship’s Motions by the Methods of Evaluation of Passengers’ Comfort Ritsuo Shigehiro and Takako Kuroda ..................................................................................................................... 410 The Effectiveness of Porous Damping Devices M.J. Downie, J. Wang and J.M.R. Graham ............................................................................................................ 418 Linear and Nonlinear Ship Motions at Zero Speed in Random Waves Yonghwan Kim, Yung-Sup Shin and Chang-Ho Kang ........................................................................................... 426 Diffraction by Large Elongated Bodies by Finite Element Method Using Absorbing Boundary Condition on Elliptic Far Field Boundary S.K. Bhattacharyya, Santhosh Sathyapal and C.P. Vendham ................................................................................ 433 Time-Domain Response of Fluid-Filled Membrane in Gravity Waves Amal C. Phadke and Kwok Fai Cheung ................................................................................................................. 441 Study of Nonlinear Local Flow Jørgen R. Krokstad and Frøydis Solaas ................................................................................................................. 449 VORTEX SHEDDING AND FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATIONS VIV Lift Coefficients Found from Response Build-up of an Elastically Mounted Dense Cylinder Kyrre Vikestad and Karl Henning Halse ................................................................................................................ 455 Simulating Vortex Shedding at High Reynolds Numbers P.A.B. de Sampaio and A.L.G.A. Coutinho ............................................................................................................. 461 Ground Effect on Vortical Flows Behind a Square Cylinder Robert R. Hwang ...................................................................................................................................................... 467 Prediction of Viscous Forces on Oscillating Cylinders by Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solver Richard Korpus, Paul Jones, Owen Oakley and Leonard Imas ............................................................................. 471 Two-Dimensional Viscous-Flow Simulations for a Circular Cylinder in Motion Armin Tavassoli, M.H. Kim and J.C. Park ............................................................................................................. 478 Coupled Cross-flow and In-line Vortex Induced Vibrations of Cable Suspensions WanJun Kim and N.C. Perkins ................................................................................................................................ 486 Effect of Variable Current on Vortex-Induced Vibrations Kyrre Vikestad and Karl Henning Halse ................................................................................................................ 493 Numerical Prediction of Vortex-Induced Vibration on Steel Catenary Risers Joar Dalheim ........................................................................................................................................................... 499 Vortex-Induced Vibrations of Moored Floats in Steady Currents Katta Venkataramana, Susumu Yoshihara, Kenji Kawano and Yorikazu Aikou .................................................. 504 An Application of Numerical Methods to the Mechanics of Vortex-Induced Vibrations in Two Dimensions Mauro C. Oliveira, Sergio H. Sphaier and Astrid M. Barros ................................................................................ 511 COASTAL ENGINEERING Solitary Wave Pressure on a Barrier M.A. Hamzah, Hajime Mase and Tomotsuka Takayama ....................................................................................... 519 Wave Forces on a Horizontal Cylinder in the Coastal Zone C. Chevalier, E. Lambert and M. Bélorgey ............................................................................................................ 524 Hydrodynamic Forces on a Submerged Horizontal Plate Type Breakwater Mikio Takaki and Xin Lin ........................................................................................................................................ 532 Scattering of Long Waves over a Submerged Step Masami Ohashi, Yukio Sato and Ken-ichiro Hamanaka ........................................................................................ 540 Three Dimensional Numerical Modelling of the Marmaris Bay L. Balas and E. Özhan ............................................................................................................................................. 547 Dissipation of Wave Energy Due to Bottom Effect on Very Mild Slope Yang Yu and Yu-cheng Li ........................................................................................................................................ 552 Hydrodynamics in the Swash Zone Marco Petti and Sandro Longo ............................................................................................................................... 559 Reliability Analysis of Existing Breakwaters E. Benassai, M. Calabrese and G. Sorgenti degli Uberti ....................................................................................... 568 A Floating Pontoon Breakwater with a Wave Wall A. N. Williams and W.G. McDougal ....................................................................................................................... 576 On the Interaction of Surface Waves with a Semi-Infinite Elastic Plate T. Sahoo, T.L. Yip and Allen T. Chwang ................................................................................................................. 584 Low-Frequency Harbour Oscillations Keiji Nomura, Yasuhisa Furuta and Ken-ichiro Hamanaka .................................................................................. 590 Numerical Simulation of Wave Refraction-Diffraction in the Pearl River Estuary Y.Chen, Onyx W.H. Wai and Y.S. Li ....................................................................................................................... 597 Analysis of Hydraulic Characteristics in Lock Chamber Using Hydraulic Model Tests Jung Wook Park, Kyu Han Kim, Chang Kun Park and Chong Kun Pyun ............................................................ 605 A Study on Motions of Pleasure Boats Moored to Floating Piers in Marina S. Shiraishi, H. Yoneyama, H. Kawahara and K. Nazato ...................................................................................... 612 Wave Interactions with Permeable Vertical Barriers Gang Yang, John Baldwin and Michael Isaacson .................................................................................................. 620 Wave-Induced Flow in a Porous Vertical Breakwater Norimi Mizutani and Ayman M. Mostafa ............................................................................................................... 625 Wave Trapping by Porous and Flexible Barriers T.L. Yip, T. Sahoo and Allen T. Chwang ................................................................................................................. 633 Experimental Velocity Profiles in Wave-Jet Interaction M. Di Natale and D. Vicinanza ............................................................................................................................... 639 A Study on the Shallow Water Wave Equation with the Presence of Currents M.C. Lin, C.M. Hsu and C.L. Ting .......................................................................................................................... 647 Sediment Transport: Continuous Versus Discrete Model F. Lalli, R. Piscopia and R. Verzicco ...................................................................................................................... 655 Experimental Study on Long Wave Run-up on Plane Beaches Michelle H. Teng, Kelie Feng and Tsung I Liao .................................................................................................... 660 Wave-Current Interactions – A Numerical Model and Simulations of Wave Propagation M. Mohiuddin, H. Togashi and Y. Hirayama ......................................................................................................... 665 A Procedure to Evaluate the Longshore Sediment Transport Due to Random Waves R. Gentile .................................................................................................................................................................. 673 ADDITIONAL PAPERS Dependence of Bimodality of Ocean Waves on Estimating Method D. Zhao ..................................................................................................................................................................... 681 Second Order Wave Diffraction Patterns About Complex Offshore Structures Pierre Ferrant and Karine Pelletier ....................................................................................................................... 686 Wave Impacts on Vertical and Composite Breakwaters Mario Calabrese and Mariano Buccino ................................................................................................................. 694 Wave Impact Load Decay Along Composite Breakwaters in Directional Seas Mario Calabrese, William Allsop and Mariano Buccino ...................................................................................... 699 The Proceedings of The Tenth (2000) International OFFSHORE AND POLAR ENGINEERING CONFERENCE VOLUME 4 To Use this Table of Contents: Scroll down or use the bookmarks in the left-hand frame to move to a new location in this index. 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Chung, ISOPE, Cupertino, California, USA Robert MW Frederking, National Research Council, Canada, Ottawa, Canada Hiroshi Saeki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wataru Koterayama, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Japan presented at; The Tenth (2000) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference held in Seattle, USA, May 28-June 2, 2000 organized by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers sponsored by: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) with cooperating societies and associations TUBULAR STRUCTURES PLENARY PRESENTATION How to Improve the Conceptual Design of Tubular Structures J. Wardenier ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 TUBULAR STRUCTURES Static Tests of Axially Loaded CHS KTKT− −Joints T. Kiuchi, Y. Makino and Y. Kurobane .. ..................................................................................................................... 8 Parametric Study and Validation of the Static Strength of Ring-Stiffened Tubular T− − and Y− −Joints Silke Willibald, Stefan Herion and Ram S. Puthli .................................................................................................... 16 Fatigue Crack Growth in Notched Thin-walled Tubes Under Non-proportional Mixed Mode Loads Xiaobo Yu and Andras Abel ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Shakedown Analysis of CHS T− −Joints K. Dale, P. Grundy and X.-L. Zhao ........................................................................................................................... 29 SCF Equations for Fatigue Design of Steel Multiplanar Tubular XX− −Joints S.P. Chiew, C.K. Soh and N.W. Wu .......................................................................................................................... 34 Stress Intensification Factors for Piping Tees Using Finite Element Analyses Edwin P. Russo and Yvonne Traynham .................................................................................................................... 41 The Effect of Chord Support Conditions on the Force-Displacement Characteristics of Tubular YT− −Joints S.B. Leen and T.H. Hyde ........................................................................................................................................... 45 Modelling Arbitrary Through-Thickness Crack in a Tubular T− −Joint S.T. Lie, S.P. Chiew, C.K. Lee, S.M. Wong and Z.W. Huang ................................................................................... 53 COMPOSITES AND SMART STRUCTURES Results from Cyclic Internal Pressure Tests on Fiberglass Pipes Guillermo Ramirez, Michael D. Engelhardt and Timothy J. Fowler ....................................................................... 59 Failure Analysis of Graphite/Epoxy Filament Wound Tubes Under Cyclic Loading H. Masudi and J. Green ............................................................................................................................................. 66 Effects of Low Temperature Thermal Cycling and Moisture on Izod Notch Toughness of a Glass FRP K.G. Kellogg, A.R. Kallmeyer and P.K. Dutta .......................................................................................................... 72 Fiber Optic Sensor System for Filament-Wound Pressure Vessels R.H. Knapp and I.N. Robertson ................................................................................................................................. 77 Thermochemical Modelling of Glass Reinforced Plastic Pipes M.R.E. Looyeh ............................................................................................................................................................ 83 Experimental Study of the Model of Prestressed High-Strength Lightweight Concrete Platform Yu-Pu Song and Xiao-Ruan Song .............................................................................................................................. 90 Ultimate Strength of Composite Steel–Concrete Shell Structure of an Open Sandwich System Setsuo Iwata, Susumu Matsuno, Hiroshi Tanaka and Masakatsu Matsuishi .......................................................... 97 Evaluation and Performance Monitoring of Corrosion Protection Provided by Fiber-Reinforced Composites S. Verhulst, L. Fuentes, J.O. Jirsa, D.W. Fowler, H.G. Wheat, D. Whitney and E. Berver .................................. 103 Analysis of Sandwich Panel as a 2-D Orthotropic Thick Plate Continuum Tat-Seng Lok and Qian-Hua Cheng ........................................................................................................................ 110 Composite Slabs with Expanded Metal Used as Metal Decking E. Keyder and O. Tengirsenk .................................................................................................................................. 116 A Fatigue Strength Prediction Model for Steel–Resin Co–cured Jointed Interfaces with Roughness Sadayoshi Chiaki and Yasumitsu Tomita ................................................................................................................ 120 Application of Synchrotron Radiation to Investigate Deformation Behavior of Sintered Fe-Cr/TiN Composites Shigeki Takago, Toshihiko Sasaki and Yukio Hirose ............................................................................................. 124 MATERIALS, WELDING AND FATIGUE The Classification of Metal Weld Deposits in Terms of the Amount of Nitrogen Tomasz Wegrzyn ...................................................................................................................................................... 130 Tensil-Strength Characteristics of Friction Welded Joints of A1050, A2017, A6061 Aluminum Alloy to SUS304 Stainless Steel Ryoji Tsujino, Katsuyoshi Morikawa, Yoshio Ohue, Hiroshi Yamaguchi and Koichi Ogawa ............................. 135 Evaluation of Joint Performance of 5056 Aluminum Friction Welded Joints by Heat Input and Burn-Off Quantity H. Ochi, T. Sawai, Y. Yamamoto, K. Ogawa and Y. Suga ...................................................................................... 139 Fatigue Strength Characteristics of A6061 Aluminum Alloy and S35C Carbon Steel Friction Welded Joints K. Morikawa, Y. Ohue, K. Ogawa and H. Nakayama ............................................................................................ 145 Automatic Control of Penetration by Monitoring Oscillation of the Molten Pool in TIG Welding of Thin Steel Plates Yasuo Suga, Kaoru Yasuda, Kazuhiro Hayakawa, Yasutomo Ichiyama and Koichi Ogawa ............................... 150 Numerical Analysis of Heat Flux on Combustion Flow Field During Line-Heating Process — 1st Report: Heat Flux for Spot Heating Yasumitsu Tomita, Naoki Osawa, Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Junji Sawamura and Nobutaka Shinkai ......................... 156 Fatigue Strength of Coated Steel Structures in Seawater Yasushi Kumakura, Masakazu Onoduka, Akio Fuji, Hironori Kino and Masuo Tada ......................................... 161 Near-Threshold Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of a Stainless Steel at Ultrasonic Frequency Z.D. Sun, C. Bathias and A. Dubois ........................................................................................................................ 167 A Study on the Characteristics of BTA Deep Drilling for Marine Part Carbon and Alloy Steels Sung-Bo Sim, Tae-Ok Jun and Chi-Ok Kim ............................................................................................................ 171 Propagation and Non-Propagation of Small Fatigue Cracks Y. Fujimoto and K. Hamada .................................................................................................................................... 180 Effects of Strain Precycling on the Tensile Fracture Morphology of Nickel 270 Daniel P. Harvey II .................................................................................................................................................. 188 Study of FEM Simulation of Cyclic Plastic Behavior of Face–Centered Cubic Crystal (F.C.C.) Crystalline Materials: 4th Report Naoki Osawa, Yasumitsu Tomita and Kiyoshi Hashimoto ..................................................................................... 195 Creep Life Prediction for Dissimilar Friction-Welded Joints of Turbine-Impeller-Heat-Resisting Steels and AE Evaluation (1) – FRW and AE Evaluation Sae-Kyoo Oh, Yu-Sik Kong, In-Jong Yoo and Il-Seock Kim .................................................................................. 203 Creep Life Prediction for Dissimilar Friction-Welded Joints of Turbine-Impeller-Heat-Resisting Steels and AE Evaluation (2) – Creep Life Prediction by ISM Sae-Kyoo Oh, Hyung-Tae Yang, Il-Dong Park and Hyun-Kyoung Kim ............................................................... 208 COLLISION, MECHANICS AND EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Dynamic Response of a Large Offshore Structure due to Seismic Loads Kenji Kawano, Katta Venkatarama and Tutomu Hashimoto ................................................................................. 213 Hydrodynamic Pressure due to Seaquakes in Deep Ocean P.K. Chatterjee, R. Jain and V.Y. Salpekar ............................................................................................................ 220 Earthquake Analysis of Buried Structures and Pipelines Based on Rayleigh Wave Propagation H. Karadeniz ............................................................................................................................................................ 227 Storage Tanks Under Earthquake Loading, a Case Study: Evaluation of Eurocode 8 Predictions P.R. Pandohi-Mishre, W.M.G. Courage and A.M. Gresnigt .................................................................................. 235 MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS Plastic Analysis of Grillage Under a Point Load Sang-Chol Lee, Ki-Sup Hong and Ki-Sung Kim ..................................................................................................... 243 Experimental and Numerical Study of Torsional Buckling of Stiffeners in Aluminium Panels Yufeng Zha, Torgeir Moan and Edvin Hanken ....................................................................................................... 249 An Assessment of Imperfections and Boundary Conditions on the Buckling of Steel Plates Antonio F. Mateus and Joel A. Witz ........................................................................................................................ 256 Mixed Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Frame Models Dermot J. Monaghan, Kok Yong Lee, Cecil G. Armstrong and Hengan Ou ......................................................... 263 COLLISION/IMPACT/DAMAGE Collapsing Behavior of Continuous Rectangular Panels of a Deck Subjected to In-plane Combined Loads K. Masaoka, H. Okada and Y. Ueda ....................................................................................................................... 270 The Effect of Hydroelasticity on the Impact Pressure due to Bottom Slamming on Ship Structure A. Bereznitski, B. Boon and V. Postnov .................................................................................................................. 277 Impact of Semi-Submerged Obstacles on the Composite Fin of a New Concept High-Velocity Craft Alessandro Bucci, David Palmieri, Sabino Rocotelli and Mario Marchetti ......................................................... 284 RELIABILITY, RISK AND SAFETY Requalification of Platforms Offshore Tampico — Tuxpan, Mexico: Conditions and Criteria Robert Bea, Faustino Perez and Roberto Ortega ................................................................................................... 292 Requalification of Platforms Offshore Tampico — Tuxpan, Mexico: Arenque Platforms Robert Bea, Faustino Perez and Roberto Ortega ................................................................................................... 300 Reliability Assessment of Marine Platforms Installed in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico Saul Florentino and David de Leon ........................................................................................................................ 307 Optimal Operational Decision-Making for Pol — A Compression Platform In Mexico David de Leon .......................................................................................................................................................... 315 Mooring System Design Considerations for FPSOs Ken Huang ............................................................................................................................................................... 319 Survey and Maintenance of Oil Storage Vessels at Mooring Site Eiichi Muraoka ........................................................................................................................................................ 325 Safety Evaluation of Ship Entering a Harbor Under Severe Wave Conditions Masayoshi Kubo, Shinji Mizui and Kazuhiro Inoue ............................................................................................... 330 Integrity Assessment of Tripod Offshore Structure Wan Mahmood Wan Ab. Majid, Mohamed Embong and Rashid Hashim ............................................................. 337 Fatigue Life Calibration of Bass Strait Platforms Based on Inspection History Andrew D. Barton and Nick K. Milani .................................................................................................................... 343 Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Offshore Structures in Ice Environment Huacan Fang, Zhaojie Gao, Menglan Duan, Fayan Xu, Zhonghan Shen and Yubiao Liu .................................. 349 Reliability Assessment of a FPSO Hull Girder Subjected to Degradations of Corrosion and Fatigue Hai-Hong Sun and Yong Bai ................................................................................................................................... 355 Risk-Based Inspection Planning Applied to 14 Steel Jacket Structures in Bass Strait, Australia — Case Study A.D. Barton and B. Descamps ................................................................................................................................. 364 In-Service Inspection Planning of Flowlines Subjected to CO2 Corrosion Svein Gunnar Hellevik and Ivar Langen ................................................................................................................. 372 Optimization for Inspection Planning of Ship Structures Considering Corrosion Effects Sung-Chan Kim, Jang-Ho Yoon and Yukio Fujimoto ............................................................................................. 380 Reliability-Based Risk Assessment in Project Management of Coastal Structures C.E. Balas, A. Ergin, G. Piskin and A.T. Williams ................................................................................................. 387 ADVANCED SHIP AND OCEAN TECHNOLOGY Ship Model Wake Analysis by Means of PIV in Large Circulating Water Channel F. Di Felice and F. De Gregorio ............................................................................................................................. 392 Seakeeping Computations Using the Ship Motion Green’s Function J.-P. Boin, M. Guilbaud and M. Ba ......................................................................................................................... 398 Numerical and Experimental Transient Tests for Ship Seakeeping A. Colagrossi, C. Lugni, M. Landrini and G. Graziani .......................................................................................... 406 Improvement of Performance on Multi-Purpose Work Vessel Kenji Yamakawa, Shoichi Hara, Kunihiro Hoshino and Kazuhiro Yukawa ......................................................... 414 Numerical Investigations on the Characteristics of Viscous Flows Around Large-Size of Twin-Skeg Container Carriers Chun-Beom Hong, Sung-Mok Ahn, Soo-Chul Shin, Uh-Cheul Jeong and Chan-Won Park ................................ 420 Experimental Investigation of the Hydrodynamic Forces Acting on the Control Surfaces of a New WIG Concept D. Dessi, F. Pistani and A. Olivieri ......................................................................................................................... 428 Characteristics of Hydrodynamic Derivatives in Maneuvering Equations for Super High-Speed Planing Hulls Yoshiho Ikeda, Toru Katayama and Hideaki Okumura ......................................................................................... 434 Vertical Load Anchor Project E. Gonçalves, C.A. Nunes Dias, A.O. Fernandes and G.R. Testa ......................................................................... 445 Tracker Monitor Device for VLA Embedment C.A. Nunes Dias, E. Gonçalves, M.A. Garcia Domingez and A.O. Fernandes ..................................................... 452 Stress Distribution of a Box Girder with Hatch Openings Tohru Ohta ............................................................................................................................................................... 458 Study on Welding Models in Shipbuilding CIM K. Hamada, K. Aoyama and S. Takechi .................................................................................................................. 464 ADDITIONAL PAPERS Application of Wavelet Method in Signal Analysis — Two Case Studies Jianbo Hua and Rong-Juin Shyu ............................................................................................................................. 472
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