| Abstract: | The jetting and cementing bucket platform (JCBP) is a new type offshore oil-drilling platform. This paper aims to establish an analysis method for calculating the dynamic response of this platform. Based on the theory of elastic half space, the dynamic stiffness and damping of the platform's foundation were obtained and attached to the end of the platform's main jackets as a boundary condition. Then using finite element method (FEM), the dynamic response of the platform due to wave and current loading was calculated. Furthermore, the whole platform's finite element model was established and the dynamic response of the platform was calculated. The numerical results demonstrate that the present method by the usage of elastic half space theory and FEM is simple and it is reliable and efficient to calculate dynamic behavior of the platform in response to wave and current loading. |
