• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.12-19
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• 2003

Corrugated bulkheads for a bulk carrier are divided into watertight bulkheads and deep tank bulkheads. Design of the watertight bulkheads is principally determined by the permissible limit of Classification and IACS requirements. But, the verification of strength through finite element analysis is indispensable for design of the deep tank bulkheads. A stage for stress evaluation of corrugated part is required for optimum structural design of the deep tank bulkheads. Since the finite element analysis for real model requires excessive amount of calculation time, in this study one corrugated structure is replaced with beam element and is idealized as 2 dimensional frame structure connected to upper and lower stool Minimum weight design of the deep tank bulkheads is performed through generalized sloped deflection method(GSDM) as direct calculation method. The purpose of this study is the development of design system for the minimization of steel weight of deep tank bulkheads as well as watertight bulkheads. Discrete variables are used as design variables for the practical design. Evolution strategies(ES) is used as an optimization technique.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.157-165
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• 1992

Three dimensional structural analysis is carried out to evaluate the global behavior of the platings for the watertight bulkhead and deep tank bulkhead of the selected model ship and to analyze the theoretical background of their formulations for the bulkhead platings in the Rules of each classification societies. In this study, coarse and fine mesh analysis for transverse bulkhead is carried out to know the stress distribution in way of the concerned areas and that result is presented to show the back data for the new formulations of such transverse bulkhead platings.