Influence of Imperfection on Dynamic Response of Cross-Stiffened Deck Subjected to In-Plane Impact
The motivation of this research is that the ship deck is subjected to uni-axial compression under sagging condition, when in the severe condition, the deck is dynamically loaded in nature, with impact type loads, which is the reason of deck collapse under severe condition. In addition, imperfection probably substantially influences the dynamic response of the impacted deck. Based on nonlinear explicit finite element method, the paper aims at studying the influence of three types of initial geometric imperfection on dynamic response of cross-stiffened deck subjected to in-plane impact. Three types of imperfection are local imperfection on deck plate between stiffeners, imperfection of overall positive deflection of the deck, and imperfection of overall negative deflection of the deck. Impact function is a half sine wave function with two parameters, impact duration and amplitude of the impact load. First order natural vibration period of the deck is selected as impact duration. Amplitude of the impact load is selected according to the value of ultimate strength of the deck, and varied by times of the ultimate strength. Strain rate effect and Strain hardening effect of the material are accounted in the analysis. Axial residual displacement of the end of the deck after impact is selected as dynamic response of the deck. The result shows that dynamic response of deck is sensitive to local imperfection, while not sensitive to overall imperfection under low or moderate level of imperfection magnitude. When imperfection is severe, residual axial displacement of the end of the deck is large, especially amplitude of impact load is somewhat larger than ultimate strength. Among 3 kinds of imperfection, dynamic response of overall negative deflection imperfection is the largest, followed by that of local imperfection, while that of overall positive deflection imperfection is the least.