NDLI: Human Injury Probability During Water Entry of Free-Fall Lifeboats: Operational Criteria Based on Long-Term Simulations Using Hindcast Data

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Fouques, Sébastien Sauder, Thomas Reinholdtsen, Svein-Arne Dam, Esra Van Uittenbogaard, Jeroen
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The paper addresses the safety of occupants in free-fall lifeboats launched from turret-moored floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. It presents a methodology for assessing operational limits with respect to acceleration-induced loads experienced by the passengers during water entry. The probability of being injured is estimated by means of numerical simulations for several seat rows and in various sea states described in terms of significant wave height and mean wind velocity. Those results are therefore practical for on-site decisions regarding the use of the free-fall lifeboats. The numerical simulations performed to estimate the 6-degrees of freedom (6-DOF) water entry accelerations in the lifeboats are based on more than 50 years of hindcast metocean data. These consist of sea state parameters provided every third hour and including the significant wave height, the peak period and the direction of both wind-sea and swell as well as the direction and mean velocity of the wind. In a first step, the motion of the FPSO is computed for the whole time period covered by hindcast metocean data, using a state-of-the art numerical model validated against experimental data. The model includes nonlinear excitation forces, a dynamic positioning system with a realistic heading control strategy, mooring line forces as well as turret-hull coupling. The obtained FPSO motion is then used in Monte Carlo simulations of lifeboat launches performed for selected time windows in the original metocean hindcast database corresponding to selected intervals of the significant wave height and mean wind velocity. In addition to the 6-DOF skid motion, the lifeboat launch simulations account for the effects of wind and waves diffracted by the FPSO hull. Finally, a probabilistic model describing the joint-distribution of several injury types and water entry acceleration parameters computed through the launch simulations is used to evaluate the injury probability. The results are presented in term of seating matrices showing critical seat rows, in which the probability of being injured exceeds a pre-defined threshold.
Sponsorship	Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780791845431
DOI	10.1115/OMAE2014-24074
Volume Number	Volume 4B: Structures, Safety and Reliability
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
Language	English
Publisher Date	2014-06-08
Publisher Place	San Francisco, California, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Water Wind Seas Computer simulation Mooring Vessels Fpso Probability Wounds Wind velocity Lifeboats Waves Stress Hull Databases Simulation Dynamic positioning systems Engineering simulation Excitation Safety Significant wave heights
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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