Kinematic Stability Analysis of Anchor Cable Structures in Submerged Floating Tunnel under Combined Parametric–Vortex Excitation

Abstract

The submerged floating tunnel is a marine transportation infrastructure that links two shorelines. The tunnel tube body’s buoyancy exceeds gravity, with anchoring ensuring equilibrium. Anchoring reliability is crucial. This study presents a three-way coupled kinematic model for the mooring structure, formulated on Hamilton’s principle and Kirchhoff’s assumption. It explores the impact of the tube body’s buoyancy-to-weight ratio and the sea current’s angle of incidence on mooring motion response. By solving the motion analysis model, Hill’s equation system is derived to assess the parameter instability of the anchor cable structure. The coefficient of excitation instability intervals for the submerged floating tunnel is determined and validated. The findings indicate the following: (1) Increasing the float-weight ratio reduces displacement response amplitudes in all directions, bringing downstream and transverse currents closer to their initial positions; (2) Changes in current direction angles result in decreased downstream excitation strength and increased transverse displacement response with the same excitation direction; (3) The instability interval visualization effectively predicts anchor cable structure instability under parametric excitation. Structures within the instability region are deemed unstable, while those outside are considered stable.

Keywords

• submerged floating tunnel
• anchor cable structure
• multidirectional coupling
• parametric instability