简介：Environmentalloadistheprimaryfactorinthedesignofoffshoreengineeringstructuresandoceancurrentistheprincipalenvironmentalloadthatcausesunderwaterstructuralfailure.Incomputationalanalysis,thecalculationofcurrentloadismainlybasedonthecurrentprofile.Thecurrentprofilemodel,whichisbasedonastructuralfailurecriterion,isconducivetodecreasingtheuncertaintyofthecurrentload.Inthisstudy,weusedprototypemonitoringdataandtheempiricalorthogonalfunction(EOF)methodtoinvestigatethecurrentprofileintheSouthChinaSeaanditscorrelationwiththedesignofunderwaterstructuralstrengthandthedynamicdesignoffatigue.Theunderwaterstructuralstrengthdesigntakesintoaccountthesizeofthestructureandtheservicewaterdepth.Weproposeprofilesfortheoverallandlocaldesignsusingtheinversefirst-orderreliabilitymethod(IFORM).Weextractedthecharacteristicprofilecurrent(CPC)ofthemonitoredseaareatosolvedynamicdesignproblemssuchasvortex-inducedvibration(VIV).WeusedrandomsamplingtoverifythefeasibilityofusingtheEOFmethodtocalculatetheCPCfromthecurrentdataandidentifiedthemainproblemsassociatedwithusingtheCPC,whichdeservecloseattentioninVIVdesign.Ourresearchconclusionsprovidedirectreferencesfordeterminingcurrentloadinthisseaarea.Thisanalysismethodcanalsobeusedintheanalysisofotherseaareasorfieldvariables.