PSI - Issue 59

Hud Mykhailo et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 59 (2024) 617–621 Hud Mykhailo / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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Fig. 4. The magnitude of deflections and the type the bottom deformations at (a) first schemes of ties placement (b) second schemes of ties placement (c) third schemes of ties placement (d) fourth schemes of ties placement It is evident that with additional ties, stiffness increases, and accordingly, the deflections of the bottom of the floating pool are reduced. In the fourth scheme, in difference to the previous ones, there was an increase in deflections with the addition of ties. The dynamics of changes in the deflections in the bottom of the floating pool depending on the location of the ties are shown in Figure 5.

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Fig. 5. Deflections at different schemes of ties in the bottom of the pool

Thus, in the initial variant of the tie arrangement, the largest deflections are observed in the bottom of the floating pool. In the third variant, the deflections are the smallest. 4. Conclusions In this research, a numerical method was used to study the effect of the location of the connections on the deformation at the bottom of a floating pool. It was determined that with increased ties between the main bottom support trusses, a decrease in deflections was observed due to increased structural stiffness. However, in the case of the fourth arrangement of connections, an increase in deflections was found, despite the increase in the overall stiffness of the pool bottom.