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Mooring Fatigue Assessment Evaluating Chain Twist and Out-of-Plane Bending for a Semi-submersible

Lookup NU author(s): Xutian Xue, Dr Yongchang Pu

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© 2020 by ASME.A mooring fatigue assessment for mooring chain links of a semi-submersible in Offshore West Africa (OWA) is presented. Three cases that mooring chain links are subjected to pure tension, out-of-plane bending (OPB), and torque are considered in the assessment. For the case that mooring chain links are subjected to pure tension, a comparative study on S-N curves, T-N curves, and fracture mechanics (FM)-based mooring system fatigue analyses is made, and the results show that the fatigue lives predicted by these three approaches are generally comparable if the safety factors suggested by API and DNVGL are applied to T-N curves and S-N curves based approaches. For the cases that mooring chain links are subjected to the OPB and torque, the investigation shows that fatigue lives of mooring chain links are decreased significantly due to the OPB effects, while the decline of fatigue lives of mooring chain links happens when the twist angles are more than 10 deg.

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Author(s): Xue X, Chen N-Z, Pu Y

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Year: 2020

Volume: 142

Issue: 6

Online publication date: 05/05/2020

Acceptance date: 23/03/2020

Date deposited: 22/06/2020

ISSN (print): 0892-7219

ISSN (electronic): 1528-896X

Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

URL: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046856

DOI: 10.1115/1.4046856

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