A Study on Plate Bending Analysis Using Boundary Element Method

This study presents a method for level ice-structure interaction analysis to estimate the fatigue damage of arctic structures by applying plate theory to the behavior of level ice. The boundary element method (BEM), which incurs a lower computational cost than the finite element method (FEM), was in...

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Published in:Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
Main Authors: Jae-hyeon Son, Yooil Kim
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Korean Society of Ocean Engineers 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.26748/KSOE.2022.015
https://doaj.org/article/513d77ac8f41405795576a1cb86bb0e9
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Summary:This study presents a method for level ice-structure interaction analysis to estimate the fatigue damage of arctic structures by applying plate theory to the behavior of level ice. The boundary element method (BEM), which incurs a lower computational cost than the finite element method (FEM), was introduced to solve the plate bending problem. The BEM formulation was performed by applying the BEM to plate theory. Finally, to check the validity of the proposed method, the BEM results and FEM results obtained using the ABAQUS commercial software were compared. The response results of the BEM analysis agreed well with those of the FEM analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, the BEM approach is considered to be very powerful in level ice-structure interaction analysis for estimating level ice-induced fatigue damage. Further work is being conducted to perform level ice fracture analysis based on the stress field calculated using the boundary element method.