Ultimate strength of ship structures including thermal and corrosion effects: a time variant reliability based approach

Moatsos, Ioannis (2005) Ultimate strength of ship structures including thermal and corrosion effects: a time variant reliability based approach. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

On December 17th 2002 the World Meteorological Organization issued a statement according to which the global mean surface temperature has risen and consequently 2002 was the warmest year in the 1961-2002 period.  Positive sea surface temperature anomalies across much of the land and sea surface of the globe in general contributed to the near record temperature ranking for the year along with climate anomalies in many regions across the globe.  Climate change as a result of global warming is a worldwide occurring phenomenon which the experts have only recently started to understand and which affects and significantly will affect us in the near future.  The effects of climate change have been somehow neglected by the ship and offshore related academic and research communities.

In the case of thermal effects on ships structures, unless the problem solved is temperature dependent, this type of stress has often been neglected and not been taken into account in most types of analysis.  The most likely reason behind this would seem to be that the stresses produced from temperature changes would be too small to be taken into account compared with still water loads or wave bending stresses.  This is not the case though.  Records exist of ships having broken in half while moored in still water and major hull factures occurred in still water while the temperature was changing as it can be seen from the relevant published literature.  Very little work on thermal stress on ship structures has been published since the 1950s and 1960s and no work has been done that considers temperature effects on ultimate strength.

Research undertaken aims to incorporate temperature effects on existing ultimate strength formulation by using a thermal stress approach, compare and use recently proposed corrosion models to model corrosion effects on ultimate strength and provide a foundation on which reliability analysis could then be performed for Tanker/FPSO structures operating in the North Sea.  After comparing a number of possible approaches that would enable to loading components to be combined in a stochastic fashion, the loading part of the reliability analysis is handled using extreme wave statistics and the Ferry Borges-Castanheta load combination method. Annual reliability indices and probabilities of failure are calculated for hogging and sagging conditions using both time-variant and time-invariant approaches and a variety of reliability analysis approaches showing the effects of temperature along with partial Safety Factors for all variables taken into account.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Subjects: V Naval Science > VM Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
• Colleges/Schools: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• Supervisor's Name: Das, Professor Purnendu K.
• Date of Award: 2005
• Depositing User: Ms Dawn Pike
• Unique ID: glathesis:2005-5326
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 26 Jun 2014 14:16
• Last Modified: 26 Jun 2014 14:16
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/5326