Hydroelastic impacts of deformable wedges

Panciroli, Riccardo (2012) Hydroelastic impacts of deformable wedges, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Meccanica e scienze avanzate dell'ingegneria: progetto n. 4 "Meccanica dei materiali e processi tecnologici", 24 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/4594.
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Abstract

This work investigates the slamming phenomenon experienced during the water entry of deformable bodies. Wedges are chosen as reference geometry due to their similarity to a generic hull section. Hull slamming is a phenomenon occurring when a ship re-enters the water after having been partially or completely lifted out the water. While the analysis of rigid structures entering the water has been extensively studied in the past and there are analytical solutions capable of correctly predicting the hydrodynamic pressure distribution and the overall impact dynamics, the effect of the structural deformation on the structural force is still a challenging problem to be solved. In fact, in case of water impact of deformable bodies, the dynamic deflection could interact with the fluid flow, changing the hydrodynamic load. This work investigates the hull-slamming problem by experiments and numerical simulations of the water entry of elastic wedges impacting on an initially calm surface. The effect of asymmetry due to horizontal velocity component or initial tilt angle on the impact dynamics is also studied. The objective of this work is to determine an accurate model to predict the overall dynamics of the wedge and its deformations. More than 1200 experiments were conducted by varying wedge structural stiffness, deadrise angle, impact velocity and mass. On interest are the overall impact dynamics and the local structural deformation of the panels composing the wedge. Alongside with the experimental analysis, numerical simulations based on a coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and FEM method are developed. The experimental results provide evidence of the mutual interaction between hydrodynamic load and structural deformation. It is found a simple criterion for the onset of fluid structure interaction (FSI), giving reliable information on the cases where FSI should been taken into account.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Panciroli, Riccardo
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Ingegneria industriale
Ciclo
24
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Hydroelasticity, Water entry, Wedges, SPH, Slamming, Eperiments, Fluid/structure interaction (FSI)
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/4594
Data di discussione
5 Giugno 2012
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