Abstract
When deep water ports are not accessible, cargo is transferred from/to larger ships to/from smaller ships offshore. A typical arrangement is to place three ships side by side. In the middle is a ship with cranes. Along one side of the crane ship is the large container ship, and along the other side is the small ship or lighter, which shuttles back and forth between the ships and shore. The sea state is a very important factor in this operation. The sea-excited motion of the crane ship can excite large pendulations of the containers while they are suspended by the cables of the cranes. The large motions can be due to either large excitation amplitudes or small excitation amplitudes near resonant conditions. In this study, the cable-suspended load is modeled as an elastic spherical pendulum. The method of multiple scales is used to derive four nonlinear ordinary- differential equations that describe the amplitudes and phases of the excited modes. These equations are used to investigate instabilities and pro...
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