Reducing payload motion during offshore operations

Reducing payload motion during offshore operations

de Vlieger, Tim (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)

Negenborn, R.R. (mentor)
Jiang, X. (graduation committee)
Colomes, Oriol (graduation committee)
van der Werf, F.J. (graduation committee)
Teunis, M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Marine Technology | Transport Engineering and Logistics

2022-08-23

Offshore lifting operations must have reduced payload motion to increase safety and reduce operating time. When payload is retrieved from the splash zone to the deck, besides the crane block, no additional control can be applied on the underactuated system. Existing studies either assume more control over the payload or develop a control system based on a new crane. To reduce payload motion on current crane vessels, a conceptual model needs to be developed.

In this thesis, various state-of-the-art solutions are considered based on four criteria: Time reduction, motion reduction, initial investment required and power required. Eventually, the quantified criteria and an analytic hierarchy process established that the most promising concept is based on an automated side loader of a garbage truck.

The selected concept is developed based on a design process that focuses on optimized material usage. The geometry is determined according to requirements and forms the starting point of the circular design process. A dynamic analysis is conducted to obtain the dynamic response of the payload and eventually the reduced payload motion. The design cycle is complete after a finite element analysis has been conducted to verify the structural integrity of the model. After more than 20 cycles of the design process, the conceptual model is optimized and over 85% of motion is reduced in the X direction. The payload motion in Y- and Z-direction is 20% and 29% respectively.

The simulation results in this study show that the conceptual model is able to reduce the payload motion during offshore lifting operations whilst staying within the limits set by offshore standards. The motion reduction of the payload creates a safer and more efficient environment to execute offshore lifting operations.

Offshore lifting operations
Conceptual development
motion reduction
Dynamic analysis
Finite Element Analysis

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2024-08-09

Student theses

master thesis

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