The analysis on coupling vibration of drill string and marine riser in deep-water drilling

Abstract

During drilling in the deep water, the system including marine riser and drill string over the wellhead exits strong dynamic response because of the motion of platform. The contact-collision problem between the drill string and marine riser under platform swaying is a highly non-linear dynamics problem, drill string and marine riser contact-collision position along the axis of marine riser is randomly distributed, and that there exits friction. In this paper, by using the method of finite element, the model of dynamical behavior of the system is set up, the state of contact between marine riser and drill string shows randomness. The rule of free lateral coupling vibration of drill string and marine riser has been obtained; the result shows the situation of random contact between drill string and marine rising. By case analysis the result shows that the platform swaying has great effect to the system of marine riser and drill string.