Second-Order Hydroelastic Analysis of a Fjord Crossing Floating Bridge Under Spatially Inhomogeneous Wave Fields

Xiaoyu Chen; Shixiao Fu; Torgeir Moan; Huajun Li; Shuai Li; Shiyuan Zhang

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Second-Order Hydroelastic Analysis of a Fjord Crossing Floating Bridge Under Spatially Inhomogeneous Wave Fields

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Very large floating structures / Beam-connected-discrete-modules method / Inhomogeneous wave fields / Newman’s approximation / Quadratic transfer function / Floating bridge

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Xiaoyu Chen, Shixiao Fu, Torgeir Moan, Huajun Li, Shuai Li, Shiyuan Zhang. Second-Order Hydroelastic Analysis of a Fjord Crossing Floating Bridge Under Spatially Inhomogeneous Wave Fields. Engineering 202607023 DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2026.07.023

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