Hydroelastic impact of a horizontal floating plate with forward speed

Abstract The hydroelastic responses of a horizontal plate impacting with the water at both forward and downward speeds are investigated theoretically. The longitudinal bending behavior of a horizontal elastic plate is approximated by the behavior of longitudinal strips represented as an Euler-beam model. A simplified method of hydroelastic responses of the plate is extended to the cases with forward speed and compressive force, for which the hydrodynamic pressure is found by solving a two-dimensional boundary value problem based on the linearized wave theory. In order to validate the theoretical model, a fully-coupled algorithm in LS-DYNA and the available experimental measurements are used for the predictions of the hydrodynamic pressure and deformations of the horizontal plates impacting with water at vertical velocities. The effects of the forward speed and compressive force which can occur at the bottom of ship ships, are investigated theoretically for the plates with different edge boundary conditions. The critical values of the forward speed and longitudinal compression are discussed regarding the plates with various longitudinal lengths.

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