Shock and Vibration
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 614615, 1 page
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/614615

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “Ship Bow Force-Deformation Curves for Ship-Impact Demand of Bridges considering Effect of Pile-Cap Depth”

Wei Fan¹ and Wancheng Yuan²

¹Department of Bridge Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
²State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Received 22 March 2015; Accepted 4 May 2015

Copyright © 2015 Wei Fan and Wancheng Yuan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In this note we correct some statements that appeared in the paper. In the paragraph beginning with “The finite element models of 5,000 DWT ship bow,” the parameter in is not the modeled depth of ship bow. The parameter should be the total depth of ship bow, which is 8.0 m and 11.8 m for 5,000 DWT and 10,000 DWT ships, respectively. We rewrite the related statements as follows:

where is the total depth of ship bow ( m and 11.8 m for 5,000 DWT and 10,000 DWT ships, resp.); is the ratio of the pile-cap depth to the total depth; the -subscript means the results associated with the pile-cap with the depth of (e.g., is the contact force at the pile-cap depth of ); similarly, the -subscript indicates the results associated with rigid walls.

Additionally, and in this paper are rewritten to make them clear as follows: