Abstract

The design of offshore structures, generally located in a hostile environment, with complex and repetitive loads, with low and difficult intervention possibilities in case of accidents, is a challenge for engineer teams, starting from the design phase and ending with that of decommissioning. In addition to the approximations generated by the structural calculation, the specification of the level of effort concentration and the relationship between effort and fatigue life are also sources of uncertainties in estimating fatigue degradation. Analysis of the sensitivity of fatigue degradation to stress concentration factors (SCF) and S-N curves is an important factor in obtaining realistic results. The paper seeks to establish the optimal yield theory that can be used to evaluate the structural response to cyclic loads associated with computational assumptions by comparing fatigue conditions due to fatigue at the nodes of a complex lattice-type marine drilling structure, to minimize assessment errors of structural reliability. A structural model of jacket marine platform with dimensional and material characteristics corresponding to Romanian marine platforms of “Gloria” type it is analysed, for which is evaluate and compared the fatigue life generated by hydrodynamic loads, using stress concentration factors given by Kellog and Kuang, SN curves: AWS-X, modified AWS-x and respectively BS-F. The results show that for the self-erecting platforms with lattice beam type, with small dimension elements, the stress concentration factors determined by Kellog are closer to reality while Kuang factors gives more covering results.

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