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Project Number 147
Date of Summary June 30, 1991
Subject Method for Predicting Hydrodynamic Damping for Offshore Structures
Performing Activity University of Mississippi
Principal Investigator Dr. Thomas E. Horton
Contracting Agency Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The objective was to develop improved damping parameters and methods of representing the effects of damping for the analysis and verification of deep water platforms. The MMS was one of six other participants in this Joint Industry Project (JIP) to improve present practice through use of an alternative to the Morrison equation, called the Inertial Pressure Method (IPM).
Progress Complete. The results of this investigation provided a basis for future studies in the area of controlled damping (active and passive), such as enhanced damping cycle to reduce loads and fatigue effects on the structure.

Reports

AA (5 pages; 498 KB) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Horton, T. E., and M. J. Feifarek, Vorticity Transport Integral Concept for Determining Wave Forces on Submerged Bodies, in Journal of Hydronautics, Vol. 15, no.'s 1-4, pp. 34-38, Jan.- Dec. 1981.y
AB (113 pages; 3,947 KB) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Horton, T. E., Final Technical Report for HYDAMP: A Joint Industry Program on Hydrodynamic Damping and Combined Motion, Sponsored by Agip, Milano, Italy, Mobil R&D Corporation, Dallas, Texas, Minerals Management Service, Washington, D. C., Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California, Texaco Inc., Houston, Texas, June 1991.

 

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