Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle

Some coastal or ocean structures have deck-like baffles or horizontal platforms that can be exposed to wave action in heavy seas. A similar situation may occur in partially-filled tanks with horizontal baffles that become engulfed by sloshing waves. This can result in dangerous wave impact loads (...

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Main Authors: Nor Aida Zuraimi, Md Noar, Greenhow, Martin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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description Some coastal or ocean structures have deck-like baffles or horizontal platforms that can be exposed to wave action in heavy seas. A similar situation may occur in partially-filled tanks with horizontal baffles that become engulfed by sloshing waves. This can result in dangerous wave impact loads (slamming) causing a rapid rise of pressures which may lead to local damaging by crack initiation and/or propagation. We consider the wave impact against the whole of underside of horizontal deck (or baffle) projecting from a seawall (or vertical tank wall), previously studied by Wood and Peregrine (1996) using a different method based on conformal mappings. The approach used is to simplify the highly time-dependent and very nonlinear problem by considering the time integral of the pressure over the duration of the impact pressure-impulse, ܲሺݔǡ ݕሻ. Our method expresses this in terms of eigenfunctions that satisfy the boundary conditions apart from that on the impact region and the matching of the two regions (under the platform and under the free surface); this results in a matrix equation to be solved numerically. As in Wood and Peregrine, we found that the pressure impulse on the deck increases when the length of deck increases, there is a strong pressure gradient beneath the deck near the seaward edge and the maximum pressure impulse occurs at the landward end of the impact zone.
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spelling ump-84812018-01-22T08:14:46Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8481/ Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle Nor Aida Zuraimi, Md Noar Greenhow, Martin Q Science (General) Some coastal or ocean structures have deck-like baffles or horizontal platforms that can be exposed to wave action in heavy seas. A similar situation may occur in partially-filled tanks with horizontal baffles that become engulfed by sloshing waves. This can result in dangerous wave impact loads (slamming) causing a rapid rise of pressures which may lead to local damaging by crack initiation and/or propagation. We consider the wave impact against the whole of underside of horizontal deck (or baffle) projecting from a seawall (or vertical tank wall), previously studied by Wood and Peregrine (1996) using a different method based on conformal mappings. The approach used is to simplify the highly time-dependent and very nonlinear problem by considering the time integral of the pressure over the duration of the impact pressure-impulse, ܲሺݔǡ ݕሻ. Our method expresses this in terms of eigenfunctions that satisfy the boundary conditions apart from that on the impact region and the matching of the two regions (under the platform and under the free surface); this results in a matrix equation to be solved numerically. As in Wood and Peregrine, we found that the pressure impulse on the deck increases when the length of deck increases, there is a strong pressure gradient beneath the deck near the seaward edge and the maximum pressure impulse occurs at the landward end of the impact zone. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8481/1/Wave_Impact_on_a_Deck_or_Baffle.pdf Nor Aida Zuraimi, Md Noar and Greenhow, Martin (2015) Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle. In: AIP Conference Proceeding, 670, 1643 :The 2nd ISM International Statistical Conference (ISM-II 2014) , 12-14 August 2014 , MS Garden Hotel, Kuantan. pp. 670-676.. (Published) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4907510
spellingShingle Q Science (General)
Nor Aida Zuraimi, Md Noar
Greenhow, Martin
Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title_full Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title_fullStr Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title_full_unstemmed Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title_short Wave Impact on a Deck or Baffle
title_sort wave impact on a deck or baffle
topic Q Science (General)
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8481/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8481/1/Wave_Impact_on_a_Deck_or_Baffle.pdf