• Forced Vibration Tests for In-Line VIV to Assess Partially Strake-Covered Pipeline Spans 

      Wu, Jie; Yin, Decao; Passano, Elisabeth; Lie, Halvor; Peek, Ralf; Sequeiros, Octavio E.; Ang, Sze; Bernardo, Chiara; Atienza, Meliza (ASME Digital Collection;OMAE2019-95970, Chapter, 2019-06)
      A series of experiments is performed in which a strake-covered rigid cylinder undergoes harmonic purely in-line motion while subject to a uniform “flow” created by towing the test rig along SINTEF Ocean’s towing tank. These ...
    • In-Line VIV Based on Forced-Vibration Tests 

      Yin, Decao; Wu, Jie; Passano, Elisabeth; Lie, Halvor; Peek, Ralf; Sequeiros, Octavio E.; Ang, Sze; Bernardo, Chiara; Atienza, Meliza (ASME Digital collection;OMAE2019-95972, Chapter, 2019-06-14)
      Excitation and added mass functions determined from forced vibration tests of a rigid cylinder undergoing harmonic motion in the flow are used in the semi-empirical software VIVANA to predict the VIV response of pipelines. ...