Title
On Chaotic Behavior Of A Fixed Offshore Structure
Abstract
In this paper we analyze the qualitative behavior of a fixed offshore oil platform under sea action perturbation (flows and tides), which is modeled by an inverted rigid pendulum with an elastic articulation at sea surface. We study their bifurcation properties provided by analytical framework and investigate their response to small oscillations, considered a more realistic case taking into consideration the platform features as flexibility and saturation.Our goal is to establish analytic conditions for chaotic oscillations occurrence in this model using the Poincare-Mel'nikov's criterion for separatrix splitting in transverse orbits, considering external periodic force.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1142/S0218127409022919
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Nonlinear dynamics, fixed offshore platform, homoclinic chaos, Poincare-Mel'nikov's criterion
Journal
19
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0218-1274
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jefferson Cassiano100.68
José Manoel Balthazar222.60