Publications


A list of some recent publications from our team is shown below:

SPOSS (Special purpose open-source software)

  1. UMAT - Unidimensional nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive subroutine

Journals

  1. CAIRE,M., VAZ, M.A., (2017)"A nonlinear viscoelastic bend stiffener steady-state formulation". Applied Ocean Research, DOI:10.1016/j.apor.2017.05.008
  2. OLIVEIRA, G.L., GOMEZ, A.J.A, CAIRE,M., VAZ, M.A., COSTA, M.F., (2017)"Characterization of seawater and weather aged polyurethane elastomer for bend stiffeners". Polymer Testting, DOI:10.1016/j.polymertesting.2017.02.012
  3. CAIRE, M., VAZ, M.A., COSTA, M.F. (2016), "Bend stiffener nonlinear viscoelastic time domain formulation". Marine Structures,DOI:10.1016/j.marstruc.2016.08.001
  4. CAIRE, M., SOUZA, C.E.S., CORTINA, J.P.R, (2015), "The influence of wind wave energy spreading on the riser system response of a spread moored FPSO". Marine Systems & Ocean Technology,doi: 10.1007/s40868-015-0004-5
  5. CAIRE, M., SCHILLER, R.V., (2012), "​The effect of coupled dynamic analysis of floater motions on the mooring and riser system response of a FPSO". Marine Systems & Ocean Technology, vol. 2, pp.95-106.
  6. VAZ, M.A., CAIRE, M., (2010), "On the large deflections of linear viscoelastic beams". International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 45(1):75-81.doi:10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2009.09.004
  7. VAZ, M.A, LEMOS, C.A.D, CAIRE, M., (2007), "A Nonlinear Analysis Formulation for Bend Stiffeners". Journal of Ship Research, 51(3):250-258

Conferences

  1. RIZZO, N.A.S, CAIRE, M., BARDANACHVILLI, C.A., (2015), "Ultimate shear strength of FPSO stiffened panels after supply vessel collision". In:ISOPE2015, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
  2. CAIRE, M., (2014), "Flexible riser bending hysteresis influence on bend stiffener response". In: OMAE2014, 2014, San Francisco, California. 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2014
  3. SCHILLER, R. V.; CAIRE, M., NÓBREGA, P.H. A.; PASSANO, E. ; LIE, H. (2014) "Vortex Induced Vibrations of Deep Water Risers: Sensitivity to Current Profile, Shear and Directionality".In: OMAE2014, 2014, San Francisco, California. 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2014.
  4. SANTOS, M. V. F., MOROOKA, C. K., CAIRE, M., FRANCISS, R., MATT, C. G. C. (2014), "A comparative study of a free span pipeline through numerical simulations". In: OMAE2014, 2014, San Francisco, California. 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2014.
  5. TABY, J., MAINCON, P., CAIRE, M., (2014), "A stress transfer function methodology for flexible riser tensile armors". In: CILAMCE 2014, 2014, Fortaleza, Ceará. XXXV Iberian Latin American Congress on Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2014.
  6. CAIRE, M., RIZZO, N. A. S., CUSTODIO, A. B., (2014), "A finite element model for flexible riser tensile armour bending". In: CILAMCE 2014, 2014, Fortaleza, Ceará. XXXV Iberian Latin American Congress on Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2014.
  7. CAIRE, M., NOBREGA, P.H.A., KHALIL, R. V., (2014), "Two-dimensional numerical simulation of an oscillating cylinder in turbulent flow: comparison to experimental results". In: SOBENA 2014, 2014, Rio de Janeiro. 25th National Congress on Maritime Transportation, Ship and Offshore Construction, 2014.
  8. CAIRE, M., SCHILLER, R.V., (2013), "The Effect of Wave Energy Spreading on the Mooring and Riser System Response of a Spread-Moored FPSO". In: ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2013, Nantes.
  9. CAIRE, M., CORTINA, J., TABY, J., (2013), "The effect of flexible riser bending hysteresis on the coupled irregular wave dynamic analysis of a spread-moored FPSO". In: 34th Iberian Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, 2013, Goias. CILAMCE 2013, 2013.
  10. RIZZO, N. A. S., VAZ, M. A., CAIRE, M.,(2012), "Estudo da Instabilidade das Armaduras de Tração de Dutos Flexíveis pelo Método de Elementos Finitos". In: CONEM, 2012, São Luiz, Maranhão. VII Congresso Nacional de Engenharia Mecânica, 2012.
  11. CAIRE, M., VAZ., M.A., (2007), "The Effect of Flexible Pipe Non-linear bending stiffness behavior on bend stiffener analysis". In: ASME 2007 26th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2007, San Diego, California.

Thesis

  1. CAIRE, M., (2011), PhD thesis (in portuguese), "Viscoelastic behavior modeling of bend stiffeners", Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Supervisor: Prof. Murilo Augusto Vaz.

Magazines

  1. Predicting a safe lifetime for risers, GEMINI, Interviewed by Nancy Bazilchuk
  2. Offshore Pipeline Technology for Deep Water and Rugged Seabed Applications, Brasil Oil & Gaz Magazine, by Marcelo Caire and Egil Giertsen

Patents

  1. Sub-fixed offshore platform. INPI. PI BR 10 2012 031610-2. (patent pending). Inventor: FONSECA, D.V., Assignee: CAIRE, M.

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