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ABSTRACT A methodology is presented for assessing internal flowinduced vibrations (FIV) in subsea
piping systems. Finite Element (FE) models are constructed for the subject piping systems, including
insulation, internal hydrocarbon weight and added mass of the surrounding sea water. Operating
vibration data are measured using ROV-deployable accelerometer loggers clamped directly to the piping
systems. The measured data are processed, analyzed and used for two purposes: model verification and
dynamic response correlation. Modal parameters are extracted from the measured data and compared
to the modal parameters computed from the structural FE model. The model is refined until the
frequencies and mode shape errors are within the desired tolerance. The measured data are then used
to derive a representative forcing function for use with frequency-domain random response analysis.
The forcing function is derived such that the properties of the predicted vibration spectrum match those
of the measured vibration spectrum for all measurement locations. The method presented herein
provides a novel semi-empirical technique for calibrating FE models to make fatigue life predictions for
subsea piping systems using measured vibration data.