OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING: Hall of Fame Award Papers

摘要

The paper described and evaluated a new method for calculating wave forces on offshore structures. It accounted for linear filtering of surface profile records into the frequency domain, superposition of Airy wavelets in the time domain, and stretching of crest kinematics, all essential elements of nonlinear dynamic analysis of deepwater structures. The accuracy of the method has been verified by comparison with measured hurricane-wave forces. Wheeler stretching, as it became known, is common practice today.