International audience; The purpose of this paper is to provide a novel model to characterize the nonlinear restoring force of a marine vertical riser by using position-and-velocity-dependent polynomials. This model permits the obtaining of a specific state space representation--via the Li'enard transformation--for the design of state observers that identify the structural parameters of vertical risers. The main results presented here are: (i) an approximation of the nonlinear restoring force by means of polynomials and its incorporation into a distributed parameter (DP) model, (ii) the transformation of the DP model into a Li'enard system and (iii) an analysis of its observability and identifiability properties.
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Published on 01/01/2014
Volume 2014, 2014
DOI: 10.3182/20140824-6-za-1003.01794
Licence: Other
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