Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds

This work investigates the underwater sound emission of marine pile driving over elastic seabeds. The finite element method is used to model sound pressure in the near field of an axisymmetric pile and environment model, where the seabed is modelled as both fluid (fluid sand) and elastic (sand, calc...

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Main Authors: Wilkes, D., Gavrilov, Alexander
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30806
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Gavrilov, Alexander
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description This work investigates the underwater sound emission of marine pile driving over elastic seabeds. The finite element method is used to model sound pressure in the near field of an axisymmetric pile and environment model, where the seabed is modelled as both fluid (fluid sand) and elastic (sand, calcarenite) materials. The presented results show that the inclusion of shear in the seabed has a marked effect on the characteristics of the radiated acoustic field in the water column, even for seabed materials which have a low shear speed. In particular, the secondary structural waves reflected from the pile ends in the elastic seabed model emit significantly less acoustic energy compared to the fluid seabed models. Scholte waves also can be observed to propagate along the fluid-solid interface in the elastic seabed models.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-308062017-09-13T15:09:36Z Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds Wilkes, D. Gavrilov, Alexander This work investigates the underwater sound emission of marine pile driving over elastic seabeds. The finite element method is used to model sound pressure in the near field of an axisymmetric pile and environment model, where the seabed is modelled as both fluid (fluid sand) and elastic (sand, calcarenite) materials. The presented results show that the inclusion of shear in the seabed has a marked effect on the characteristics of the radiated acoustic field in the water column, even for seabed materials which have a low shear speed. In particular, the secondary structural waves reflected from the pile ends in the elastic seabed model emit significantly less acoustic energy compared to the fluid seabed models. Scholte waves also can be observed to propagate along the fluid-solid interface in the elastic seabed models. 2016 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30806 10.1007/978-3-662-48868-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg restricted
spellingShingle Wilkes, D.
Gavrilov, Alexander
Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title_full Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title_fullStr Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title_full_unstemmed Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title_short Numerical Modelling of Sound Radiation from Marine Pile Driving over Elastic Seabeds
title_sort numerical modelling of sound radiation from marine pile driving over elastic seabeds
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30806