Dynamic Plastic Analysis of Ship-Platform Collision

This paper studies intensively the problems of ship-platform collision.The ship and platformare treated as one structural system connected with spring elements and then motion equation of the colli-sion system is established.A nonlinear force-displacement relationship is derived for the simulation of lo-cal dent in a hit member and the yield surface of a dented tubular section is developed to consider the re-duction of load carrying capacity of hit members.Large deformations,plasticity and strain-hardening ofthe beam-column element are taken into account by combining the elastic large displacement analysis theo-ry with the plastic node method.The effect of the hydrodynamic forces acting on the platform,the rubberfender the property of the local dent and the buckling behavior of beam-column on collision are analyzed.The numerical simulation of the nonlinear dynamic response is carried out by Wilson θ method with updat-ed Newton-Raphson iteration.And the numerical example of the dynamic response of a offs