Modelling cutterhead/soil interaction for a cutter suction dredger in waves
7-8 November 2019. Ahoy, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Blanken A and Los JG - Royal IHC, the Netherlands
Summary: Assessment of concept designs and design improvements of a cutter suction dredger often stumbles over the challenges of cutterhead and soil interaction. This paper will discuss how modelling soil interaction on the scale of a cutter head, rather than cutter teeth, enables complete system simulations.
Representation of a DODO model of a cutter suction dredger with cutterhead/soil interaction
- Workability calculations of cutter suction dredgers to evaluate concept designs and achieve design improvements
- A computationally inexpensive approach to model cutterhead/soil interaction
- Implementation in multi body dynamics software DODO
- Nonlinear time domain simulations of cutter suction dredgers in waves
Last update: 27 September 2019