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Logistical supply is costly for the deepwater oil and gas exploitation, thereby it is necessary to develop a novel power supply solution to improve the offshore structure’s self-holding capacity. The two-body point absorbers, as a renewable energy device, have achieved a rapid development. Heave plate is used to constrain the truss’s motion in the two-body point absorber, and the floater moves along the truss up and down. This two-body point absorber can be considered to be an essentially mass-spring-damper system. And it is well known that the heave plates have been widely used in the Spar platform to suppress the heave motions. So if the two-body point absorber can be modified to combine with offshore floating structures, this system can not only offer electric power to support operations or daily lives for the platform, but also control the large motions in the vertical plane. Following this concept, a novel tuned heave plate (THP) system is proposed for the conventional semi-submersible platform. In order to investigate the dynamic performances of the single THP, two experiments are conducted in this paper. First, the hydrodynamic coefficients of the heave plates are studied, and then the THP experiments are carried out to analyze its dynamic performance. It can be concluded that this THP is feasible and achieves the design objective.
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Foundation item: This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Program of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2016EEQ23), and the Youth Exploration Project of Shandong Province Mount Tai Scholar Advanced Disciplinary Talent Group.
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Liang, Hz., Liu, K., Li, Ly. et al. Dynamic Performance Analysis of the Tuned Heave Plate System for Semi-Submersible Platform. China Ocean Eng 32, 422–430 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-018-0044-7
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