Journal
MARINE STRUCTURES
Volume 82, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2021.103124
Keywords
Submerged floating tunnel; Hydroelasticity; Vortex-induced vibration; Time-domainsimulation
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Funding
- Norwegian Public Roads Administration
- Research Council of Norway through the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) at NTNU
- Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (AMOS) at NTNU [223254]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China [51825903]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52088102]
- Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [U19B2013]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Program [19XD1402000, 19JC1412801]
- Key Projects for Intergovernmental Cooperation in International Science, Technology and Innovation [2018YFE0125100]
- State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) [GKZD010081]
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The study focuses on the potential pontoon-supported curved submerged floating tunnel designed for crossing Sognefjorden, considering wave-induced hydroelastic response and flow-induced vibrations. Short-crested waves and strong flow conditions are found to significantly affect the design, particularly in extreme conditions.
The Norwegian Public Road Administration is planning to upgrade Coastal Highway E39 by replacing ferry connections with floating bridges or submerged floating tunnels (SFTs). This study considers a potential pontoon-supported curved SFT designed for crossing Sognefjorden at a submergence of 12 m. It consists of two identical tubes with a diameter of 12.6 m each in a tandem configuration and with a length of approximately 4 km. The natural frequencies of the low-order modes are well within the energy content in the spectra of the second-order differencefrequency wave excitation forces and the vortex shedding-induced forces. In this paper, numerical simulation of wave-induced hydroelastic response and flow-induced vibrations of the twin-tube SFT is performed. Long- and short-crested waves, the first and second order wave loads, are considered. A time-domain approach to simulate crossflow vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and VIV-amplified inline drag forces, partly based on the coefficients obtained experimentally, is established and applied. The focus is on extreme conditions - relating to ultimate strength limit states. The second-order wave load substantially affects the lateral motion and lateral bending moment, as expected. The short-crested waves influence the response in both the lateral and vertical directions by exciting asymmetric eigenmodes. In strong flow conditions, once VIV is excited, the standard deviation of the vertical motion (of about 30% of the diameter) and the bending moment about the horizontal axis is more that an order of magnitude larger than that induced by the wave loads. The simulation of the wave- and flow-induced load effects provides a good reference for the design of SFTs.
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