2023 Volume 148 Pages 1-10
Because the mooring facility is usually considered as a fixed type construction, the fendering system for mooring facility needs to support the total ship’s impact caused by berthing and mooring of ship. Basically, piles which compose dolphins or piers are deformed, and also absorb a part of the ship’s impact. In this paper, we have tried to reproduce the dynamic behavior of ship berthing phenomena by a numerical simulation method which considers a coupling effect of motions of the ship and the dolphins with fender deformation, and have investigated the accuracy through comparing with those of the observed test results of the actual VLCC’s berthing by Ueda.
