Dynamic Stability Analysis of Caisson Breakwater in Lifetime
Considering the Annual Frequency of Severe Storm |
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| Authors: | WANG Yu-chi WANG Yuan-zhan and HONG Ning-ning |
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| Institution: | State Key Laboratory for Simulation & Safety of Hydraulic Engineering,
Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration,
Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;State Key Laboratory for Simulation & Safety of Hydraulic Engineering,
Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration,
Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;State Key Laboratory for Simulation & Safety of Hydraulic Engineering,
Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration,
Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China |
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| Abstract: | In the dynamic stability analysis of a caisson breakwater, most of current studies pay attention to the motion characteristics of caisson breakwaters under a single periodical breaking wave excitation. And in the lifetime stability analysis of caisson breakwater, it is assumed that the caisson breakwater suffers storm wave excitation once annually in the design lifetime. However, the number of annual severe storm occurrence is a random variable. In this paper, a series of random waves are generated by the Wen Sheng-chang wave spectrum, and the histories of successive and long-term random wave forces are built up by using the improved Goda wave force model. It is assumed that the number of annual severe storm occurrence is in the Poisson distribution over the 50-year design lifetime, and the history of random wave excitation is generated for each storm by the wave spectrum. The response histories of the caisson breakwater to the random waves over 50-year design lifetime are calculated and taken as a set of samples. On the basis of the Monte Carlo simulation technique, a large number of samples can be obtained, and the probability assessment of the safety of the breakwater during the complete design lifetime is obtained by statistical analysis of a large number of samples. Finally, the procedure of probability assessment of the breakwater safety is illustrated by an example. |
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| Keywords: | caisson breakwater dynamic stability lifetime wave spectrum annual storm frequency |
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