• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.1 s.31
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• pp.23-28
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• 1999

For offshore structures, dynamic analysis becomes increasingly important as water depth increases and structural configuration becomes more slender. In the case of dynamic analysis of frame structures, much computer time and high cost are required due to many degrees of freedom, In this paper, a new technique of permutating a segment of frame structure to a beam is developed, which is called here Beam Permutation Technique. The technique is based on definition of stiffness matrix of the beam which is obtained by defining the actions(or forces) required to obtain unit translation or rotation for each degree of freedom wiht al other degree of freedom restrained to zero displacement or rotation. In the technique, an assumption is made that relative positions of nodes in the ends of the segment are not variable, The technique can significantly reduce the degrees of freedom of frame structures and thus the computiong time in dynamic analysis. The natural frequencies and static displacements of the permutated beam are obtained and compared to those of ANSYS with a good agreement.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.81-86
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• 2000

For on-shore structures, dynamic analysis becomes increasingly important as the water depth increases and the structural configuration becoines slenderer. In this study, an estimation method for equivalent three dimensional (30) hydrodynamic coefficients is introduced as a part of beam permutation technique development. The beam pemlUtation technique is being developed for obtaining an equivalent beam to a frame structure in order to reduce the degrees of freedom and thus the analysis time significantly. Two 3D structures are used in order to verify the obtained equivalent 3D hydrodynamic coefficients. Two commercial softwares, ANSYS and SACS, are used for the verification. The results of the present analysis are found to be satisfactory in comparison with those by the two softwares.