• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2017

This paper presents the numerical simulation results for the dynamic responses of two types of submerged floating tunnels (SFT) under wave and/or seismic excitations. Time domain simulations are conducted by the commercial program OrcaFlex (OF) and in-house CHARM3D program (CP). The dynamic performances of a short/rigid/free-end SFT section with vertical and inclined mooring lines are evaluated. The SFT numerical models were validated against Oh et al.'s (2013) model test results under regular wave conditions. Then the numerical models were further applied to the cases of irregular waves or seismic motions. The main results presented are SFT surge/heave motions and mooring tensions. The general trends and magnitudes obtained by the two different software packages reasonably agree to each other along with experimental results. When seabed seismic motions are applied to the SFT system, the dynamic responses of SFTs are small but dynamic mooring tension can significantly be amplified. In particular, horizontal earthquakes greatly increase the dynamic tension of the inclined mooring system, while vertical earthquakes cause similar effect on vertical mooring system.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.109-123
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• 2015

In the present study, the coupled dynamic response of a Submerged Floating Tunnel (SFT) and mooring lines under regular waves is solved by using two independent numerical simulation methods, OrcaFlex and CHARM3D, in time domain. Variations of Buoyancy to Weight Ratio (BWR), wave steepness/period, and water/submergence depth are considered as design and environmental parameters in the study. Two different mooring-line configurations, vertical and inclined, are studied to find an optimum design in terms of limiting tunnel motions and minimizing mooring-line tension. The numerical results are successfully validated by direct comparison against published experimental data. The results show that tunnel motions and tether tensions grow with wave height and period and decrease with submergence depth. The inclined mooring system is more effective in restricting tunnel motions compared to the vertical mooring system. Overall, the present study demonstrates the feasibility of this type of structure as an alternative to traditional bridges or under-seabed tunnels.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.413-433
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• 2017

The dynamic and structural responses of a 1000-m long circular submerged floating tunnel (SFT) with both ends fixed under survival irregular-wave excitations are investigated. The floater-mooring nonlinear and elastic coupled dynamics are modeled by a time-domain numerical simulation program, OrcaFlex. Two configurations of mooring lines i.e., vertical mooring (VM) and inclined mooring (IM), and four different buoyancy-weight ratios (BWRs) are selected to compare their global performances. The result of modal analysis is included to investigate the role of the respective natural frequencies and elastic modes. The effects of various submergence depths are also checked. The envelopes of the maximum/minimum horizontal and vertical responses, accelerations, mooring tensions, and shear forces/bending moments of the entire SFT along the longitudinal direction are obtained. In addition, at the mid-section, the time series and the corresponding spectra of those parameters are also presented and analyzed. The pros and cons of the two mooring shapes and high or low BWR values are systematically analyzed and discussed. It is demonstrated that the time-domain numerical simulation of the real system including nonlinear hydro-elastic dynamics coupled with nonlinear mooring dynamics is a good method to determine various design parameters.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제13권3호통권33호
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• pp.3-11
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• 1999

Optimum design of mooring dolphin is numerically investigated. Design optimization problem of moring dolphin is first formulated. Geometry and cross sections of piles are used as design variables. Design objective is the total weight of steel piles of mooring dolphin, and the constraints of stress, penetration depth, lower and upper bounds on design variables are imposed. Based on the design variable linking and fixing, several class of design variations are sought. For the numerical optimization, both PLBA(Pshenichny - Lim - Belegundu - Arora) program and DNCONF subroutine code in IMSL library are used. For a dolphin structure with 20 steel piles, vertical and inclined, optimum designs for different cases are successfully obtained, which can be applied for the mooring of a very large floating structure.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1998년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.237-244
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• 1998

Optimum design of mooring dolphin is numerically investigated. Design optimization problem of mooring dolphin is first formulated. Geometry and cross sections of piles are used as design variables. Design objective is the total weight of steel piles of mooring dolphin and the constraints of stress, penetration depth, lower and upper bounds on design variables are imposed. Based on the design variable linking and fixing, several class of design variations are sought. For the numerical optimization, both PLBA( Pshenichny-Lim-Belegundu-Arora) program and DNCONF subroutine code in IMSL library are used. For a dolphin with 20 steel piles, vertical and inclined, optimum designs for different cases are successfully obtained, which can be applied for the mooring of a large floating structure.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.345-352
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• 2017

Recently, a new port reserves deep water depth for safe navigation and mooring, following the trend of larger ship building. Larger port facilities include long and huge breakwaters, and mainly adopt vertical type considering low construction cost. A vertical breakwater creates stem waves combining inclined incident waves and reflected waves, and this causes maneuvering difficulty to the passing vessels, and erosion of shoreline with additional damages to berthing facilities. Thus, in this study, the researchers have investigated the response of stem waves at the vertical breakwater near the entrance channel and applied numerical models, which are commonly used for the analysis of wave response at the harbor design. The basic equation composing models here adopted both the linear parabolic approximation adding the nonlinear dispersion relationship and nonlinear parabolic approximation adding a linear dispersion relationship. To analyze the applicability of both models, the research compared the numerical results with the existing hydraulic model results. The gap of serial breakwaters and aligned angles caused more complicated stem wave generation and secondary stem wave was found through the breakwater gap. Those analyzed results should be applied to ship handling simulation studies at the approaching channels, along with the mooring test.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.285-294
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• 2000

계류돌핀의 강관말뚝식 하부구조에 대한 실용적 설계최적화 과정을 제시하고, 수치 예를 통하여 유용성을 평가하였다. 유한차원 최적설계 문제의 정식화에서, 말뚝들을 몇 개의 그룹으로 구분하여 이들의 기하학적 위상과 단면의 치수를 설계변수로 활용하였다. 설계목적함수는 말뚝의 총 중량이며, 설계제약조건은 응력과 근입 깊이, 설계변수의 상한과 하한 등이다. 설계변수의 연계와 고정을 통해 몇 가지의 실용적 설계 대안을 검토하였다. 최적화 프로그램으로는, 순차2차계획법(SQP)을 사용하고 또 쉽게 얻을 수 있는 PLBA 및 IMSL 라이브러리의 DNCONF서브루틴을 이용하였다. 수치예제의 돌핀은 20개의 강관말뚝으로 하부구조를 형성하며, 이중 4개는 연직말뚝이고 16개는 경사말뚝이다. 다양한 대안 설계에서 성공적으로 최적해를 얻었으며, 실용적인 최적 설계과정 임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.167-173
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• 2014

석션 매입 앵커(Embedded Suction Anchor; ESA)는 석션 기초(Suction Pile or Caisson)을 이용하여 앵커를 지중에 매설한 후 인발에 저항하는 계류앵커형식이다. 본 연구에서는 ALE (Arbitrary Larangan Eulerian) Adpative Meshing 기법을 이용한 수치해석을 통해 석션 매입 앵커의 인발 거동을 모사하고, 그 결과를 기존 연구에서 수행된 원심모형 실험 및 한계 평형법을 이용한 해석적 방법의 결과와 비교 분석 하였다. 이를 통해 앵커의 수평 연직 경사 방향의 인발 거동을 평가하였으며, 수치 해석 결과, 수평 재하 시 중간 위치에서 가장 큰 저항력을 발휘하는 것으로 나타났다. 연직 재하의 경우 재하 위치와 무관하게 유사한 저항력이 발휘 되었으며, 수평 저항력이 가장 큰 중간 위치에서 경사 하중을 가한 결과 경사각이 증가할수록 인발 저항력이 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.