Nonlinear Integrated Simulation of Dropped Container Impact With Platform Deck
Abstract Dropped objects are an important hazard for offshore structures. Depending on the impact energy level, significant plastic deformation may happen. In order to capture the failure mechanism correctly, proper numerical settings shall be used. This paper presents a numeric study for an offshore platform deck encounter potential dropped container impacts. Abaqus Explicit solver was used in this study. One challenge in such kind of analysis is to have a correct tensile fracture model to capture the steel failure mechanism within Abaqus and be in compliance with relevant regulation standards/codes. The steel structure is normally discretized by a certain size of quadrilateral or triangular shell elements. High stress concentration and complicated stress states exist in the impact area. Triaxiality based failures were proposed and used in the study. A calibration against experimental tests has been performed to check the validity of different stress state dependent failure criteria (the RTCL based and the 1st principle plastic strain based). It is concluded that the 1st principle plastic strain based criterion originated from DNVGL-RP-C208 gives the most conservative results. Discussions have been performed based on the results, which may shed light on similar engineering projects.