简介:Fortheglobalandstructuralfatiguestrengthanalysisofasemi-submersibleplatform,waveloadsunderdesigncon-ditionsarecalculatedbyuseofthethree-dimensionalboundarydementmethod.Methodsforcalculatingtheforward-speedfree-surfaceGreenfunctionarediscussedandacomputerprogramwiththisGreenfunctionisdeveloped.Accordingtothespecialrules,thewaveloadsunderseveraltypicaldesignconditionsoftheplatformarecalculated.Themaximumverticalbendingmoment,torsionmomentandhorizontalsplitforcearedeterminedfromaseriesofcontourmapsofwaveloadsforthewaveperiodof5to18secondsatacertainintervalandthewavephaseofO°to360°atacertaininterval.Thewaveheightisdeterminedbythefunctionofwaveperiodwithagivenexceedanceprobability.Themaximumwaveloadsunderthecombinationofwaveparametersareusedastheinputofhydrodynamicpressureinthethree-dimensionalfiniteelementanalysisprocess.Thetransferfunctionsofwaveloadsontheplatformareusedforthefatiguestrengthanal-ysisoftheK-tubularjointandthesub-modelofthestructure.