Name: Abigail Porter Email: Send Gender: Female Hometown: A town in Texas Major: Computer Information Systems (So, I am the web designer.) Concentration(s): Asian Studies Japanese Language and Society School Name: Guilford College School Location: Greensboro, NC Graduation Year: 2009 When In China, Thing(s) Missed Most From USA: Family, friends, being able to talk and read easily (even though I have been trying to learn Chinese), and cheese products When In USA, Thing(s) Missed Most From China: People I met, KTV (karaoke), Chinese music, cute Chinese Olympic mascots, and Chinese food (especially the spicy food from Sichuan province) Mentor: Professor Yue Qianjin Graduate Student: Xu Ning Research Title: Computational Amplitude Analysis of Dynamic Ice Forces on Conical Jacket Structures Research Abstract: This paper presents a new method by combining with calculation of FEM to avoid instability and modify uncertainty of direct measured ice force data in-situ/in field test. First, the field monitoring system, which includes ice conditions, structure response and ice force, on jackets in the Bohai Sea is introduced. Such a complete and simultaneous system provides the most actual information and many practical conclusions are advanced from the data. Then, based on structures’ linear performance under ice action and synchronization of pulse dynamic ice force, it is promoted that the relationship between responses of the actual structures under real global force and the FEM under local force from one load panel is the same with these two kinds of ice force. The qualified relationship between the responses is used to transfer the precise local force to global ice force. One example is calculated to show the whole process under typical ice conditions. The results can guide the design ice force to jackets structures in the Bohai Sea or even larger areas.