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Uncertainty assessment for a towed underwater stereo PIV system by uniform flow measurement

  • Han, Bum Woo;Seo, Jeonghwa;Lee, Seung Jae;Seol, Dong Myung;Rhee, Shin Hyung
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.596-608
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    • 2018
  • The present study aims to assess test uncertainty assessment method of nominal wake field measurement by a Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (SPIV) system in a towing tank. The systematic uncertainty of the SPIV system was estimated from repeated uniform flow measurements. In the uniform flow measurement case, time interval between image frames and uniform flow speed were varied to examine the effects of particle displacement and flow around the SPIV system on the systematic standard uncertainty. The random standard uncertainty was assessed by repeating nominal wake field measurements and the estimated random standard uncertainty was compared with that of laser Doppler velocimetry. The test uncertainty assessment method was applied to nominal wake measurement tests of a very large crude oil carrier model ship. The nominal wake measurement results were compared with existing experimental database by other measurement methods, with its assessed uncertainty.

Strength Development Properties of Alkali-Activated Slag Mortar by Curing Conditions (양생조건에 따른 알칼리활성슬래그 모르타르의 강도발현 특성)

  • Song, Jin-Gyu;Kim, Byeong-Jo;Oh, Myeong-hyeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2015
  • This study consist of research on the strength development properties of alkali activated slag(AAS) by differential combination of activators, initial protecting and curing conditions. 3 type of binders cured in the atmosphere, underwater and sealed were estimated compressive strength of 3, 7 and 28 days. Test results showed that strength development properties of binders varied with initial protecting and curing conditions because of ionized anions in pore water.

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Dynamic Response of Drill Floor to Fire Subsequent to Blowout

  • Kim, Teak-Keon;Kim, Seul-Kee;Lee, Jae-Myung
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.110-119
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    • 2020
  • Explosions and fires on offshore drilling units and process plants, which cause loss of life and environmental damage, have been studied extensively. However, research on drilling units increased only after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico. A major reason for explosions and fires on a drilling unit is blowout, which is caused by a failure to control the high temperatures and pressures upstream of the offshore underwater well. The area susceptible to explosion and fire due to blowout is the drill floor, which supports the main drilling system. Structural instability and collapse of the drill floor can threaten the structural integrity of the entire unit. This study simulates the behavior of fire subsequent to blowout and assesses the thermal load. A heat transfer structure analysis of the drill floor was carried out using the assessed thermal load, and the risk was noted. In order to maintain the structural integrity of the drill floor, passive fire protection of certain areas was recommended.

Transplantation of Young Fronds of Sargassum horneri for Construction of Seaweed Beds (해중림 조성을 위한 괭생이모자반(Sargassum horneri) 유체의 이식)

  • CHOI Chang Geun;KIM Hyung Geun;SOHN Chul Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.469-473
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    • 2003
  • Transplantation of Sargassum horneri to natural substrate using the rope seeding method was undertaken. Seeding of S. horneri was grown on net in an indoor tank up to 0.2-0.3 cm in frond length for 2 months, and then transplanted to an architecture tile $(10\times10\;cm)$ with underwater glue and an iron pipe. After two months, number of S. horneri on the tile decreased because of grazing by herbivores. However, S. horneri on the iron pipe grew up to 0.5-2.0 cm in frond length. After 7 months, they rapidly grew up to a frond length of 11.0-203.0 cm with a mean frond length of 122.6 cm. S. horneri grew up to a maximum frond length of 313.0 cm, and mean frond length of 228.0 cm, after 10 months. The artificial S. hornevi beds can be used to clean the seawater and also be utilized as a source of marine biomass as well as for supplying habitat, shelter and spawning beds for fish and invertebrates.

Dynamic Stability Assessment of Pressure Hull in Deep Sea against Implosion Pressure Pulse (심해 환경 하에서 내파 충격파를 받는 내압 선체의 동적 좌굴 평가 기법)

  • Nho, In Sik;Cho, Sang Rai;Cho, Yoon Sik
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.57 no.4
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    • pp.198-206
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the dynamic structural behavior of pressure vessels due to pressure pulse initiated by implosion of neighbouring airbacked equipments including Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV), sensor system, and so on were dealt with for the structural design and safety assessment of pressure hulls of submarine. The dynamic buckling and collapse responses of pressure vessel in deep sea were investigated considering the effects of initial hydrostatic pressure and fluid-structure interactions. The governing equations for circular cylindrical shells were formulated theoretically assuming a relatively simple displacement fields and the derived nonlinear simultaneous ordinary differential equations were analysed by developed numerical solution algorithm. Finally, the introduced safety assessment procedures for the dynamic buckling behaviors of pressure hulls due to implosion pressure pulse were validated by comparing the theoretical analysis results with those of experiments for examples of simple cylinders.

Material & Structural Characteristics of Composite Material Flexible Propeller (복합재료 유연 프로펠러의 재료 및 구조적 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Gab;Hwang, Jeong-Oh;Byun, Joon-Hyung
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.203-217
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    • 2009
  • The researches on the development of composite material propeller with outstanding damping effects have been actively attempted for the reduction of radiation noise of underwater vehicle propeller. Composite material suitable for the flexible propeller has the following advantages, such as high specific strength and specific stiffness, low thermal expansion coefficient, high resistance against environmental deterioration, low possibility of corrosion due to cavitation, nonoccurrence of rapid fracture due to fatigue, easy molding of complicated shape, easy repair maintenance and low production costs, etc. For the confirmation of optimal fiber array structures of composite material for the production of the flexible propeller blades, in this study, mechanical characteristics of its specimens according to materials were obtained and structural characteristics of propeller blade were also examined according to materials and stacking fiber arrays.

Dynamic Analysis of Floating Bodies Considering Multi-body Interaction Effect (다물체 연성효과를 고려한 부유체의 동적거동 안전성 해석)

  • Kim, Young-Bok;Kim, Moo-Hyun;Kim, Yong-Yook
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.659-666
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    • 2009
  • Recently, there are several problems in space, contiguity and facility of the existing harbors issued due to the trend of enlarging the container capacity of the large container vessel, the Mobile Harbor has been proposed conceptually as an effective solution for those problems. This concept is a kind of transfer loader of the containers from the large container ship, which is a floating barge with a catamaran type in the underwater part, and so prompt maneuverability and work effectiveness. For the safe mooring of two floating bodies, a container and the mobile harbor, in the near sea apart from the quay, a robot arm mooring facility specially devised would be designed and verified through comparison study under various environmental sea condition in the inner and outer harbor. DP system (Dynamic Positioning System) using the azimuth thruster and a pneumatic fender, etc, will be considered as a next research topic for the mooring security of multi-body floaters.

Numerical study of hydrodynamic interaction on a vessel in restricted waterways

  • Lee, Chun-Ki
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2012
  • The hydrodynamic interaction between ship and bank can't be neglected when a vessel is app- roached toward the tip of a wedge-shaped bank in restricted waterways, such as in a harbor, near some fixed obstacles, or in a narrow channel. In this paper, the characteristic features of the hydrodynamic interaction acting on a slowly moving vessel in the proximity of a wedge-shaped bank are described and illustrated, and the effects of water depth and the spacing between ship and wedge-shaped bank are summarized and discussed based on the slender body theory. From the theoretical results, it indicated that the hydrodynamic interactions decrease as wedge-shaped bank of angle ${\beta}$ in-creases. For water depth to draft ratio less than about 2.0, the hydrodynamic interactions between ship and bank in-crease sharply as h/d decreases, regardless of the wedge-shaped bank of angle ${\beta}$. Also, for lateral separation more than about 0.2L between ship and wedge-shaped bank, it can be concluded that the bank effects decrease largely as the separation increases.

Application of the Runge Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin-Direct Ghost Fluid Method to internal explosion inside a water-filled tube

  • Park, Jinwon
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.572-583
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    • 2019
  • This paper aims to assess the applicability of the Runge Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin-Direct Ghost Fluid Method to the internal explosion inside a water-filled tube, which previously was studied by many researchers in separate works. Once the explosive charge located at the inner center of the water-filled tube explodes, the tube wall is subjected to an extremely high intensity fluid loading and deformed. The deformation causes a modification of the field of fluid flow in the region near the water-structure interface so that has substantial influence on the response of the structure. To connect the structure and the fluid, valid data exchanges along the interface are essential. Classical fluid structure interaction simulations usually employ a matched meshing scheme which discretizes the fluid and structure domains using a single mesh density. The computational cost of fluid structure interaction simulations is usually governed by the structure because the size of time step may be determined by the density of structure mesh. The finer mesh density, the better solution, but more expensive computational cost. To reduce such computational cost, a non-matched meshing scheme which allows for different mesh densities is employed. The coupled numerical approach of this paper has fewer difficulties in the implementation and computation, compared to gas dynamics based approach which requires complicated analytical manipulations. It can also be applied to wider compressible, inviscid fluid flow analyses often found in underwater explosion events.

A correction of synthetic aperture sonar image using the redundant phase center technique and phase gradient autofocus (Redundant phase center 기법과 phase gradient autofocus를 이용한 합성개구소나 영상 보정)

  • Ryue, Jungsoo;Baik, Kyungmin
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.546-554
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    • 2021
  • In the signal processing of synthetic aperture sonar, it is subject that the platform in which the sensor array is installed moves along the straight line path. In practical operation in underwater, however, the sensor platform will have trajectory disturbances, diverting from the line path. It causes phase errors in measured signals and then produces deteriorated SAS images. In this study, in order to develop towed SAS, as tools to remove the phase errors associated with the trajectory disturbances of the towfish, motion compensation technique using Redundant Phase Center (RPC) and also Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA) method is investigated. The performances of these two approaches are examined by means of a simulation for SAS system having a sway disturbance.