Research on high quality mesh method of armored umbilical cable for deep sea equipment

Abstract Most of the references are automatic mesh generation, but the accuracy of armored umbilical cable (AUC) analysis is not high enough. There is no detailed introduction about high-quality mesh generation method. Therefore, a high quality mesh method (hexahedral mesh generation method) for AUC for deep sea equipment is proposed in this paper. Hexahedral mesh generation method is often used in the analysis of structures subjected to bending or torsion and structures with large deformation. The analysis of AUC is exactly the analysis of bending or torsional structures and large deformation structures. The model is divided into five types for end face member: a circular, a circular ring, a fan-shaped, a side with a curved triangular and a curved square side. In addition, different hexahedral mesh methods for five different cross-section types, get a high quality hexahedral mesh of each part and assemble it by combination, forming a high quality AUC three-dimensional hexahedral mesh model. At last, finite element analysis is carried out to determine the accuracy of the hexahedral mesh model. The results show: hexahedral mesh can improve analysis accuracy more than automatically generated mesh. This will provide technical support for the design, reliability analysis of the AUC.