• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.427-439
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• 2018

Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units have the advantages of their ability to provide storage and offloading capabilities which are not available in other types of floating production systems. In addition, FPSOs also provide a large deck area and substantial topsides payload capacity. They are in use in a variety of water depths and environments around the world. It is a good solution for offshore oil and gas development in fields where there is lack of an export pipeline system to shore. However due to their inherently high motions in waves, they are limited in the types of risers they can host. The Low Motion FPSO (LM-FPSO) is a novel design that is developed to maintain the advantages of the conventional FPSOs while offering significantly lower motion responses. The LM-FPSO design generally consists of a box-shape hull with large storage capacity, a free-hanging solid ballast tank (SBT) located certain distance below the hull keel, a few groups of tendons arranged to connect the SBT to the hull, a mooring system for station keeping, and a riser system. The addition of SBT to the floater results in a significant increase in heave, roll and pitch natural periods, mainly through the mass and added mass of the SBT, which significantly reduces motions in the wave frequency range. Model tests were performed at the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO) in the fall of 2016. An analytical model of the basin model (MOM) was created in Orcaflex and calibrated against the basin-model. Good agreement is achieved between global performance results from MOM's predictions and basin model measurements. The model test measurements have further verified the superior motion response of LM-FPSO. In this paper, numerical results are presented to demonstrate the comparison and correlation of the MOM results with model test measurements. The verification of the superior motion response through model test measurements is also presented in this paper.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.82-96
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• 2019

A semi-submersible structure has been widely used for offshore drilling and production of oil and gas. The small water plane area makes the structure very sensitive to weight increase in terms of payload and stability. Therefore, it is necessary to lighten the substructure from the early design stage. This study aims at an optimization of hull structure based on a sophisticated yield and buckling strength in accordance with classification rules. An in-house strength assessment system is developed to automate the procedure such as a generation of buckling panels, a collection of required panel information, automatic buckling and yield check and so on. The developed system enables an automatic yield and buckling strength check of all panels composing the hull structure at each iteration of the optimization. Design variables are plate thickness and stiffener section profiles. In order to overcome the difficulty of large number of design variables and the computational burden of FE analysis, various methods are proposed. The steepest descent method is selected as the optimization algorithm for an efficient search. For a reduction of the number of design variables and a direct application to practical design, the stiffener section variable is determined by selecting one from a pre-defined standard library. Plate thickness is also discretized at 0.5t interval. The number of FE analysis is reduced by using equations to analytically estimating the stress changes in gradient calculation and line search steps. As an endeavor to robust optimization, the number of design variables to be simultaneously optimized is divided by grouping the scantling variables by the plane. A sequential optimization is performed group by group. As a verification example, a central column of a semi-submersible structure is optimized and compared with a conventional optimization of all design variables at once.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.213-225
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• 2020

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT) installed in the deep sea regions where stable and strong wind flows are abundant would have significantly improved energy production capacity. When designing FOWT, it is essential to understand the stability and motion performance of the floater. Water tank model tests are required to evaluate these aspects of performance. This paper describes a model test and numerical simulation for a 750-kW semi-submersible platform wind turbine model-II. In the previous model test, the 750-kW FOWT model-I suffered slamming phenomena from extreme wave conditions. Because of that, the platform freeboard of model-II was increased to mitigate the slamming load on the platform deck structure in extreme conditions. Also, the model-I pitch Response Amplitude Operators (RAO) of simulation had strong responses to the natural frequency region. Thus, the hub height of model-II was decreased to reduce the pitch resonance responses from the low-frequency response of the system. Like the model-I, 750-kW FOWT model-II was built with a 1/40 scale ratio. Furthermore, the experiments to evaluate the performance characteristics of the model-II wind turbine were executed at the same location and in the same environment conditions as were those of model-I. These tests included a free decay test, and tests of regular and irregular wave conditions. Both the experimental and simulation conditions considered the blade rotating effect due to the wind. The results of the model tests were compared with the numerical simulations of the FOWT using FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence) code from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.599-616
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• 2021

The semi-submersible with three circular columns is an original concept of efficient multifunctional platform, which can be used for marginal oil, gas field, and Floater of Wind Turbines (FOWT). However, under certain flow conditions, especially in uniform current with specific velocities, the eddies will alternatively form and drop behind columns, resulting in the fluctuating lift force and drag force. Consequently, the semi-submersible will subject to the Flow-Induced Motions (FIM). Based on the Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) method, the numerical studies were carried out to understand the FIM characteristics of the three-column semi-submersible at two different parameters, i.e., current incidences (0°, 30°, and 60°-incidences) and reduced velocities (4 ≤ U_r ≤ 14). The results indicate that the lock-in range of 6 ≤ U_r ≤ 10 for the transverse motions is presented, and the largest transverse non-dimensional nominal amplitude is observed at 60°-incidence, with a value of A_y/D = 0:481. The largest yaw amplitude A_yaw is around 3.0° at 0°-incidence in the range of 8 ≤ U_r ≤ 12. The motion magnitude is basically the same as that of a four-column semi-submersible. However, smaller responses are presented compared to those of the three-column systems revealing the mitigation effect of the pontoon on FIM.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.173-193
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• 2023

Reliable prediction of the motion of FOWT (floating offshore wind turbine) and associated mooring line tension is important in both design and operation/monitoring processes. In the present study, a 5MW OC4 semisubmersible wind turbine is numerically modeled, simulated, and analyzed by the open-source numerical tool, OpenFAST and in-house numerical tool, Charm3D-FAST. Another commercial-level program FASTv8-OrcaFlex is also introduced for comparison for selected cases. The three simulation programs solve the same turbine-floater-mooring coupled dynamics in time domain while there exist minor differences in the details of the program. Both the motions and mooring-line tensions are calculated and compared with the DeepCWind 1/50 scale model-testing results. The system identification between the numerical and physical models is checked through the static-offset test and free-decay test. Then the system motions and mooring tensions are systematically compared among the simulated results and measured values. Reasonably good agreements between the simulation and measurement are demonstrated for (i) white-noise random waves, (ii) typical random waves, and (iii) typical random waves with steady wind. Based on the comparison between numerical results and experimental data, the relative importance and role of the differences in the numerical methodologies of those three programs can be observed and interpreted. These comparative-study results may provide a certain confidence level and some insight of potential variability in motion and tension predictions for future FOWT designs and applications.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.53-53
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 수심센서가 장착된 고성능 GPS 전자부자를 활용하여 하천 수리량 측정에 대한 방법과, 개발 된 고성능 GPS 전자부자의 성능 검증을 위해서 수리량 측정장비인 Flowtracker 측정데이터와 비교분석을 하고자 하였다. 국내 하천환경에서의 수리량 조사는 필수적인 요소이다. 최근 국내 첨단기술을 활용한 수리량 계측 기술들은 ADCP, ADV, UVM, SIV와 같은 많은 계측 기술들이 있다. 이러한 기술들은 장비가 매우고가이며, 많은 시간과 인력이 필요하고 상황에 따른 한계점들이 존재한다. 이러한 수리량 계측 기술들은 오일러리안 타입 계측 방식의 측정으로 계측 구간이 한정되어 있어 수질 오염사고와 같은 장구간의 지속적인 정보가 필요한 하천상황에 따라 라그랑지안 방식의 계측도 필요하다. 본 연구에서 개발 된 고성능 GPS 전자부자는 IoT 기술이 접목되어 실시간 데이터 활용이 가능하며 실시간 데이터 분석을 통해 라그랑지안 타입의 장구간 계측이 가능하다. 고성능 GPS 전자부자는 외경 197mm 지름 88mm, 무게 700g 이내로 간편하게 소지 및 사용 시 투척이 간단하여 인력 및 현장 접근성에 대한 장점을 가지고 있다. 또한 기존 선행 연구들의 GPS 전자부자들의 경우 홍수 발생 시에 유량 측정에서 어려움이 있었기 때문에 본 연구에서 개발된 고서은 GPS 전자부자의 경우 수심센서의 장착으로 유량까지 산정할 수 있기 때문에 홍수 발생이나, 오염물질 발생으로 인한 접근성이 어려운 하천상황에서 유용하게 사용될 수 있다. 고성능 GPS 전자부자를 활용하여 중·소하천인 경북 김천 및 구미시에 위치한 감천에서 성능 평가를 진행하였으며 Flowtracker 수리량 측정 데이터 대비 오차율이 10% 이내로 들어오는 것을 확인하였다. 이러한 성능 검증을 바탕으로 고성능 GPS 전자부자를 활용한 측정법을 제시하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.29-40
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• 1971

Oxygen consumption, pulmonary ventilation, heart rate, and breathing frequency were measured on 8 men walking on a treadmill carrying load of 9 kg on hand, back, or head. Besides measurements were made on subjects carrying loads of 2.6 kg each on both feet. The speed of level walking was 4, 5, and 5.5km/hr and a fixed speed off km/hr with grades of 0, 3, 6, and 9%. Comparisons were made between free walking without load and walking with various types of loads. The following results were obtained. 1. In level or uphill walking the changes in oxygen consumption, pulmonary ventilation, breathing frequency and heart rate were smallest in back load walking, and largest in hand load walking. The method of back load was most efficient and hand load was the least efficient. The energy cost in head load walking was smaller than that of in hand load walking. It was assumed that foot load costed more energy than hand load. 2. In level walking the measured parameters increased abruptly at the speed of 5.5 km/hr. Oxygen consumption in a free walking at 4 km/hr was 11.4ml/kg b.wt., and 13.1 ml/kg b.wt. 5.5 km/hr, and in a hand load walking at 4 km/hr was 13.9, and 18.8 ml/kg b. wt. at 5.5 km/hr. 3. In uphill walking oxygen consumption and other parameters increased abruptly at the grade of 6%. Oxygen consumption at 4 km/hr and 0% grade was 11.4 ml/kg b. wt., 13.6 at 6% grade, and 16.21/kg b. wt. at 9% grade in a free walking. In back load walking oxygen consumption at 4km/hr and 0% grade was 12.3 ml/kg b.wt.,14.9 at 6% grade, and 18.7 ml/kg b.wt. In hand load walking the oxygen consumption was the greatest, namely, 13.9 at 0% grade, 17.9 at 6%, and 20.0 ml/kg b. wt. at 9% grade. 4. Both in level and uphill walking the changes in pulmonary ventilation and heart rate paralleled with oxygen consumption. 5. The changes in heart rate and breathing frequency in hand load were characteristic. Both in level and uphill walk breathing frequency increased to 30 per minute when a load was held on hand and showed a small increase as the exercise became severe. In the other method of load carrying the Peak value of breathing frequency was less than 30 Per minute. Heart rate showed 106 beats/minute even at a speed of 4 km/hr when a load was held on hand, whereas, heart rate was between, 53 and 100 beats/minute in the other types of load carriage. 6. Number of strides per minute in level walking increased as the speed increased. At the speed floater than 5 km/hr number of strides per minute of load carrying walk was greater than that of free walking. In uphill walk number of strides per minute decreased as the grade increased. Number of strides in hand load walk was greatest and back load walk showed the same number of strides as the free walk.

• 대한치과교정학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 1999

한국인 7세-17세 아동의 두개저, 상악, 하악의 사춘기 성장 양상을 파악해 보고자 남자 251개, 여자 286개의 측모두부계측방사선 사진을 이용, 10개의 계측점과 16개의 계측항목을 설정하고 계측항목에 대한 계측치와 각 연령별 년간 누년차를 산출한 다음 이들간의 통계적 유의성을 검증하였으며 각 계측항목을 두개저, 상악, 하악의 세군으로 분류하고 또 남녀별로 분류하여 비교함으로써 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 한국인 성장기 아동에 있어서의 성장은 남자 아동에 비해 여자 아동이 빠른 시기에 일어났다. 2. 두개저, 상악골, 하악골 모두 사춘기 성장을 나타내었으나 두개저의 성장은 안면골 성장에 비해 상대적으로 작았다. 3. 두개저 성장에 있어서 전두개저 길이의 증가에 비해 중두개저 및 후두개저의 길이 증가가 현저했으며 사춘기 성장증가(circumpuberal growth spurt) 양상도 보다 명확했다.4. 상악골의 전하방 이동은 상악골 자체의 길이 성장과 상악골 주위 봉합부의 성장에 따른 변위가 종합된 결과로 두개저에 대한 상악골의 상대적 위치를 나타내는 Ar-ANS와 Ar-Pr이 상악골 자체의 길이 성장을 나타내는 ANS-PNS보다 많은 성장량을 보였다. 5. 하악골은 수평 성장량에 비해 수직 성장이 약간 크게 나타났으나 유의할 수준은 아니다. 6. 상악 치조골과 하악 치조골은 유치 탈락후 영구치 맹출시기에 최대 성장률을 보인후 감소하는 경향을 보이지만 하악 치조골의 수직성장에서는 사춘기 성장증가가 관찰되었다.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.332-345
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• 2019

이 연구의 목적은 TPH 또는 $Cr^{6+}$이 함유된 오염 지하수의 처리 가능성을 평가하는 데 있다. 오일과 물의 분리, 용존 공기 부유 (DAF), 응고 및 침전, 모래와 활성탄으로 각각 여과를 위한 실험실 규모 테스트가 수행되었다. 총 40 분간의 분리 시간 동안 오일과 물의 분리 시험을 2 회 실시한 결과 TPH 제거율은 90.2 %였다. 높은 농도의 TPH 샘플에 대한 DAF 테스트의 경우, TPH 제거율은 미세 기포 크기의 변화에 따라 크게 변하지 않았다. 그러나 낮은 TPH 샘플에 대한 테스트는 미세 기포가 작을수록 TPH 제거율이 증가함을 보여준다. DAF 테스트를 위해 응집제를 샘플에 첨가했을 때 TPH 제거율은 12.3 % 증가했다. DAF에 의한 SS 제거율은 $16{\sim}40{\mu}m$에서 97.9 %였으며 미세 기포의 크기가 감소함에 따라 증가했다. 지하수에서 $Cr^{6+}$의 제거를 평가하기 위해 응집 및 침전 시험을 수행했다. $FeSO_4$ 투여량을 증가하였을때 응집 및 침전 공정에서 $Cr^{6+}$ 제거율이 증가하였다. 필터 매체에서 활성탄의 비율이 높을수록 여과공정에서 TPH 제거율이 증가한다. 여과에 의한 SS 제거율은 DAF 공정 시험 결과와 비슷한 96.7 %였다. 여과 과정은 TPH와 SS 농도가 감소하였다. 모래의 크기가 $425{\sim}850{\mu}m$이고 활성탄과 모래의 비율이 50:50일때 최적의 처리효율을 나타냈다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.375-387
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• 2023

The subsea power cables are increasingly important for harvesting renewable energies as we develop offshore wind farms located at a long distance from shore. Particularly, the continuous flexural motion of inter-array dynamic power cable of floating offshore wind turbine causes tremendous fatigue damages on the cable. As the subsea power cable consists of the helical structures with various components unlike a mooring line and a steel pipe riser, the fatigue analysis of the cables should be performed using special procedures that consider stick/slip phenomenon. This phenomenon occurs between inner helically wound components when they are tensioned or compressed by environmental loads and the floater motions. In particular, Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) can be generated by currents and have significant impacts on the fatigue life of the cable. In this study, the procedure for VIV fatigue analysis of the dynamic power cable has been established. Additionally, the respective roles of programs employed and required inputs and outputs are explained in detail. Demonstrations of case studies are provided under severely sheared currents to investigate the influences on amplitude variations of dynamic power cables caused by the excitation of high mode numbers. Finally, sensitivity studies have been performed to compare dynamic cable design parameters, specifically, structural damping ratio, higher order harmonics, and lift coefficients tables. In the future, one of the fundamental assumptions to assess the VIV response will be examined in detail, namely a narrow-banded Gaussian process derived from the VIV amplitudes. Although this approach is consistent with current industry standards, the level of consistency and the potential errors between the Gaussian process and the fatigue damage generated from deterministic time-domain results are to be confirmed to verify VIV fatigue analysis procedure for slender marine structures.