FACILITIES

Deepwater Offshore Basin

The basin is the first deep-water offshore basin in China. Main characteristics of basin is 50m in length, 40m in width. The water depth for whole basin can be changed in 0m~10m, by a large-area false bottom. A deep pit in the basin with 40.0m of the total water depth allows the modeling of water depth up to 4,000m. The basin is used for research on load, motion and dynamic response of offshore structure in various deep-sea environments such as wind, waves and currents. Such as the performance of deep-water offshore structures (offshore platforms, FPSO, marine renewable energy, etc.), dynamic positioning, green water or slamming load, installation and sea transportation of offshore structures

Equipped with:

Wave generator: A segmented wavemaker with totally 222 units is equipped on two sides of the basin. The multi-directional long-crested, short-crested waves and freak wave can be generated. The maximum significant wave height is 0.35m

Current generator: Adjustable vertical current velocity profiles over complete water depth of 10m.

Wind generator: Wind or wind spectrum in any direction can be simulated by the wind generating system mounted in the low part of the carriage. Both wind and wind load can be simulated as requirement.

Carriage system: A X-Y carriage crossing the whole basin.

Instrumentation

Non-contact six degrees of freedom motion meters, covering whole basin.

Wave probes, doppler flow velocity meter and hot wire anemometer

Various types testing instruments: mooring load, pressure and acceleration sensors etc.

Deepwater Offshore Basin

Deepwater Offshore Basin (1)

Deepwater Offshore Basin (2)

Deepwater Offshore Basin (3)

Deepwater Offshore Basin (4)