Hydroelastic Behavior of Floating Artificial Islands In Waves

A new method is presented to analyze the elastic response in waves of a large floating platform of thin plate configuration which is typical of a recent design for a floating airport. An advantage of this new method is that the modal analysis of the body deflection is not needed; the solution of a hydrodynamic boundary value problem and the solution for the body vibration are simultaneously obtained. Results of numerical implementation of the method are presented. †Presently with Ship Research Institute, Tokyo. Received October 12, 1998: revised manuscript received by the editors November 9, 1998. The original was submitted directly to the Journal.