A natural and an artificial harbor can exhibit frequency (or period) dependent water surface oscillations when excited by incident waves. Such oscillations in harbors can cause significant damages to moored ships and adjacent structures. This can also induce undesirable current in harbor. Many previous investigators have studied various aspects of harbor resonance problem. In the present paper, both a localized finite element method(LFEM) which is based on the functional constructed by Chen & Mei(1974) and Bai & Yeung(1974) and an integral equation method which was used by Lee(1969) are applied to harbor resonance problem. The LFEM shows computationally more efficient than the integral equation method. Our test results show a good agreement compared with other results. In the present computations, specifically two harbor geometris are treated here. The present method by LFEM can be extended to a fully three dimensional harbor problem.

A potential-based panel method is presented for the analysis of a partially-cavltatlng two-dimensional hydrofoil. The method employs normal dipoles and sources distributed on the foil and cavity surfaces. It is shown that the source plays an Important role in positioning the cavity surface through an iterative process. The cavity closure consition is found very effective in generating the cavity shape. Upon convergence, the method predicts the cavitation nurser, together with the lift, the drag and the surface pressure distribution, for a given cavity length. Systematic convergence tests shows that the present numerical method is fast and stable. The present computations show a good agreement with the previously computed and measured results.

In this paper, a thoery for the static analysis of large plastic deformations of 3-dimentional frames, aiming at application to the collapse analysis of ship structures, is presented. In the frame analysis formulation, effects of shear deformations are included. A plastic hinge is inserted into the field of a beam and post-failure deformation of the plastic hinge is characterized by finite rotations and extensions. In order to model deep web frames of ship's structures into a framed structures, collapse of thin-walled plate girders is investigated. The proposed analysis method is applied to several ship structural models in the references.

Deck wetness phenomenon has long been considered as one of the factors that degrade the performance of a ship In waves. In rough weather, the frequent skipping of water may give rise to the capsizing of the ship. Therefore an appropriate above water bow shape design is an important asset to a ship of which successful performance in rough weather is a prerequisite such as a warship. In this paper an experimental technique for estimation of deck-wetness frequency is presented. The results of the model tests are compared with those of computations using Ochi's formula. Finally the applicability of Ochi's formula is discussed.

By using multiple-scale expansion techniques, the Mach reflection of sinusoidally- modulated nonlinear Stokes waves by a stationary thin wedge has been studied within the framework of potential theory. It is shown that the evolution of diffracted wave amplitude can be described by the Zakharov equation to the loading order and that It reduces to the cubic Schrodinger equation with an additional linear term in the case of stable modulations. Computations are made for the cubic Schrodinger equation for different values of nonlinear and dispersion parameters. Numerical results reflect the experimental findings in terms of the amplitude and width of generated stem waves. Based on the computations it is concluded that the nonlinearity dominates the wave field, while the dispersion does not significantly affect the wave evolution.

There exist many frame structural systems having some attachments reducible to damped spring-mass systems, concentracted masses and spring supports. For free and forced vibration analyses of such a system an analytical method based on the receptance method is presented. A framed structure having attachments is considered as a combined system composed of various Timoshenko beam and bar elements and the attachments. So, the vibration characteristics of the system are calculated by synthesizing receptances and Support Displacement Transfer Ratio (SDTR) of beam and bar elements In spectral and/or closed forms, and receptances of the attachments. In forced vibration analysis, arbitrary excitation forces at a point on the structure and displacement excitations at boundaries are considered. Numerical investigations are carried out for verification of the presented method, and the results show good accuracy and very high computational efficiency.

Hull form development for an AFRAMAX tanker characterized by the form parameters of $C_B\simeq0.8$, $L/B\simeq5.5$, $B/T\simeq3.5$, han been carried out by the application of ‘Composite Stern Frameline Concept’. The viscous resistance of the new form was much smaller than that of the conventional form. Form factor of the new form was only 0.18 compared to 0.30 for the conventional hull form, Nevertheless the propulsive efficiency was slightly lower and thus the required propulsion power was smaller by 5~6% at both full load and ballast condition. In addition, it is confirmed that introduction of the form factor method such as ITTC’78 method is highly advisable because there is a great risk of the underperdicting full scale resistance of the hull form whose form the extrapolation of moel resistance to full scale is to be based on Froude method with the correlation allowances usually applied to conventional hull forms.

A new propeller series is developed using the newly developed blade section (KH 18 section) which has better cavitation characteristics and higher lift-drag ratio at wade angle-of-attack range than a conventional section. The radial patch distribution of the new series propellers is variable stance they were designed adaptively to a typical wake distribution. Basic geometric particulars of the series propellers. such as chord length, thickness, skew and rake distributions, are determined on the basis of recent full scale propeller geometric data. The series is developed for propellers having 4 blades, and blade area ratios of 0.3, 0.45, 0.6 and 0.75. Mean pitch ratios are varied as 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.95 and 1.1 for each blade area ratio. The new propeller series consists of 20 propellers and is named as the KD(KRISO-DAEWOO)-propeller series. Propeller open-water tests are performed at the towing tank, and cavitation observation tests and fluctuating pressure tests are carried out at the cavitation tunnel of KRISO. $B_{p}-\delta$ curves, which can be used to select the optimum propeller diameter at the preliminary design stage, are derived from a regression analysis of the propeller open-water test results. The KD-cavitation chart is derived from the cavitation observation test results by choosing the local maximum lift coefficient and the local cavitation number as parameters. The cavity extent predicted by the KD-cavitation chart would be more accurate compared to that by an existing cavitation charts, such as the Burrll's cavitation chart, since the former is derived from the cavitation observation test results in a typical ship's wake, while the lather is derived from the test results in a uniform flow.

A displacement-based finite element method Is presented for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of eccentrically stiffened plates. A nonlinear degenerated shell element and a nonlinear degenerated eccentric isoparametric beam (isobeam) element are formulated on the basis of Total Agrangian and Updated Lagrangian descriptions. In the formulation of the isobeam element, some additional local decrees of freedom are implementd to describe the stiffener's local plate buckling modes. Therefore this element can be effectively employed to model the eccentric stiffener with fewer D.O.F's than the case of a degenerated shell element. Some detailed buckling and nonlinear analyses of an eccentrically stiffened plate are performed to estimate the critical buckling loads and the post buckling behaviors including the local plate buckling of the stiffeners discretized with the degenerated shell elements and the isobeam elements. The critical buckling loads are found to be higher than the analytical plate buckling load but lower than Euler buckling load of the corresponding column, i.e, buckling strength requirements of the Classification Societies for the stiffened plates.