IJME 553

Paper Title: Study on the Assessment of Impact Force Between Ship and Bridge Pier

Authors

J Pan, Key Laboratory of High Performance Ship Technology (Wuhan University of Technology), Ministry of Education, China; and Departments of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Structural Engineering, School of Transportation, Wuhan University of Technology, China

S W Huang, Departments of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Structural Engineering, School of Transportation, Wuhan University of Technology, China

Y F Huang, Departments of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Structural Engineering, School of Transportation, Wuhan University of Technology, China

M C Xu, School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; and Collaborative Innovation Centre for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration (CISSE), China

Summary  

The bridge crossing water way is in the risk of impact by vessel, and thus it is very important to estimate the collision force for the safety of bridge. The impact force between bridge pier and vessel is investigated by numerical simulation and various empirical formulae. The collision response between a 5000t DWT bulk carrier with bulb bow and rigid bridge pier is simulated in the explicit finite element code of ANSYS LS-DYNA. The difference of the impact force between the empirical formulae and FE analysis are discussed. Based on the comparison of the results, the coefficient in the formulae is suggested for obtaining more accurate assessment of impact force.

Reference

Transactions RINA, Vol 161, Part A4, International Journal Maritime Engineering, Oct - Dec 2019 

DOI Number

DOI No: 10.3940/rina.ijme.2019.a4.553

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