Vidar Hellum

Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Sciences

Email: vidar.hellum@uia.no
Phone: +47 37 23 38 16
Mobile phone: +47 99 35 74 15
Office: D3074 (Jon Lilletuns vei 9, 4879 Grimstad, Norway)

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Background and experience

2011 - 2018: AS Nymo - Structural Engineer

Responsible for design and calculations of offshore steel constructions. Worked as Project Structural Discipline Lead the last five years of the period.

2009 - 2011: Aker Solutions MH - Structural Engineer

Designer of offshore steel constructions

Research groups

Engineering Structures

Hellum, Vidar; Heimdal, Anette & Lande, Ingrid (2024). Different Assessment Methods in a Civil Engineering Course. Nordic Journal of STEM Education. 8(1). doi: 10.5324/njsteme.v8i1.5008. Full text in Research Archive
Hellum, Vidar; Gabrielsen, Øystein & Ås, Sigmund Kyrre (2023). Fatigue crack growth in mooring chain steel at different mean load levels. Marine Structures. ISSN 0951-8339. 92. doi: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2023.103507. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The fatigue crack growth rates of R4 mooring chain steel at different R-ratios are investigated. Crack growth experiments are performed at three different R-ratios, 0.1, 0.3 and 0.7, utilizing compact tension specimens in air environment. Huang and Moan’s driving force parameter ΔKE, which relates the growth rates at different R-ratios to those obtained at R = 0, is explored and adapted for R4 steel. A full-scale fatigue experiment involving a chain assembly with an identified crack is presented, where the observed crack growth was successfully modelled by the proposed crack growth model. Case studies with different mean loads are explored where the crack growth model is utilized to predict the fatigue life of D = 145 mm chain links with a crack at the crown location. The crack growth simulations are compared and discussed against published S–N curves for chain links with varying mean load. The S–N curves may give very inaccurate results when extrapolated outside of the underlying test data. The crack growth model predicts longer lives at low stress ranges and low mean loads compared to the S–N curves, indicating that current guidelines may be overly conservative in these conditions.
Hellum, Vidar; Vaalandsmyr, Anders; Schonlau, Thomas; Heimdal, Anette & Meijer, Jawk (2022). Performance of PA6C Plastic Sheaves Used for Mooring Line Installation. In ASME, . (Eds.), ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Volume 3: Materials Technology; Pipelines, Risers, and Subsea Systems. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). ISSN 9780791885871. doi: 10.1115/OMAE2022-79057. Full text in Research Archive
Hellum, Vidar; Lassen, Tom & Spagnoli, Andrea (2021). Crack growth models for multiaxial fatigue in a ship’s propeller shaft. Engineering Failure Analysis. ISSN 1350-6307. doi: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2021.105470. Full text in Research Archive
Hellum, Vidar; Ding, songxiong & Lassen, Tom (2019). Fatigue of Mooring Chains Connected to Offshore Floating Structures Considering Out of Plane Bending Effects. In ASME, . (Eds.), ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 3: Structures, Safety, and Reliability. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). ISSN 9780791858783. doi: 10.1115/OMAE2019-96114. Full text in Research Archive

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Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Hellum, Vidar; Robbersmyr, Kjell Gunnar; Jakobsen, Mette Mo; Sjursen, Aslak Darre & Frøiland, Eirik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2026). Status for utvikling av automatisk sortering av fisk ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens. doi: https:/www.fhf.no/nyheter-og-arrangementer/arrangementer/pukkellaks-2026/. Full text in Research Archive
Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Hellum, Vidar; Robbersmyr, Kjell Gunnar; Jakobsen, Mette Mo; Sjursen, Aslak Darre & Frøiland, Eirik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2025). Status of development ofautomatic sorting of fish using AI. Full text in Research Archive
Hellum, Vidar; Vaalandsmyr, Anders; Schonlau, Thomas; Heimdal, Anette & Meijer, Jawk (2022). Performance of PA6C plastic sheaves used for mooring line installation. Full text in Research Archive
Hellum, Vidar (2022). Fatigue crack growth in mooring chain links. Full text in Research Archive
Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Hellum, Vidar; Robbersmyr, Kjell Gunnar; Jakobsen, Mette Mo; Sjursen, Aslak Darre & Frøiland, Eirik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2026). Automatiske sorteringssystemer for oppvandrende pukkellaks – evaluering av tre prototyper. NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet. ISSN 9788283224344. Full text in Research Archive

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