Stiffened Plate Analysis by Considering the Effect of Uniaxial Load on FPSO Vessels

Abstract

Abstract: Plates are a very important part of shipbuilding and offshore structures. The reinforced plate is used to withstand loads acting in the axial and bending directions. The structure of the deck or bottom plate exhibits buckling or yielding behavior. Thus, it is very important to analyze the ultimate bearing capacity of a plate structure subjected to compressive loads for safe ship structure design. The material configuration used is the most important aspect in the FPSO structure design criteria. Plates and stiffened plates experience local buckling due to the external load when the hull girder collapsed. The objective of the present study is to analyze the effect of flange and web thickness to the ultimate strength on the FPSO in terms of plate deformation located of the bottom and deck area under compression stages. In this study, the attached plate thickness is varied according to FPSO data and BKI Rule. The stiffened plates element located at the bottom and deck area are modelled by Tee-Bar and Angle-Bar element. The simply supported condition is applied to the model and the anon-liniear Finite Element Method is used for the analysis. The result obtained by NLFEM shows that under tension and compression, the stiffened plate of Tee-Bar model, the deformations are 1,75 mm and 1,8 mm respectively. While for Angle-Bar model the deformation are 12,4 mm and 13 mm under compressing respectively.