• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.523-532
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• 2019

Different types of gas reservoir such as Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) are among the strategic infrastructures, and have great importance for any government or their private owners. To keep the tank and its contents safe during earthquakes especially if the contents are of hazardous or flammable materials; using seismic protection systems such as base isolator can be considered as an effective solution. However, the major deficiency of this system can be the large deformation in the isolation level which may lead to the failure of bearing system. In this paper, as a solution, the efficacy of an optimally designed combined vibration control system, the combined laminated rubber isolator and rotational friction damper, is investigated to evaluate the enhancement of an existing metal tank response under both far- and near-field earthquakes. Responses like impulsive and convective accelerations, base shear, and sloshing height are studied herein. The probabilistic framework is used to consider the uncertainties in the structural modeling, as well as record-to-record variability. Due to the high calculation cost of probabilistic methods, a simplified structural model is used. By using the Mont-Carlo simulation approach, it is revealed that this combined isolation system is a highly reliable system which provides considerable enhancement in the performance of reservoir, not only leads to the reduction of probability of catastrophic failure of the tank but also decrease the reservoir damage during the earthquake. Moreover, the relative displacement of the isolation level is controlled very well by this combined system.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.394-399
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• 2019

Plywood is a laminated wood material where alternating layers are perpendicular to each other. It is used in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for an insulation system because it has excellent durability, a light weight, and high stiffness. An LNG cargo containment system (LNG CCS) is subjected to loads from gravity, sloshing impact, hydrostatic pressure, and thermal expansion. Shear forces are applied to an LNG CCS locally by these loads. For these reasons, the materials in an LNG CCS must have good mechanical performance. This study evaluated the shear behavior of plywood. This evaluation was conducted from room temperature ($25^{\circ}C$) to cryogenic temperature ($-163^{\circ}C$), which is the actual operating environment of an LNG storage tank. Based on the plywood used in an LNG storage tank, a shear test was conducted on specimens with thicknesses of 9 mm and 12 mm. Analyses were performed on how the temperature and thickness of the plywood affected the shear strength. Regardless of the thickness, the strength increased as the temperature decreased. The 9 mm thick plywood had greater strength than the 12 mm thick specimen, and this tendency became clearer as the temperature decreased.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.132-150
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• 2014

In this study, the inertial properties of fully filled liquid in a tank were studied based on the potential theory. The analytic solution was obtained for the rectangular tank, and the numerical solutions using Green's 2nd identity were obtained for other shapes. The inertia of liquid behaves like solid in recti-linear acceleration. But under rotational acceleration, the moment of inertia of liquid becomes small compared to that of solid. The shapes of tank investigated in this study were ellipse, rectangle, hexagon, and octagon with various aspect ratios. The numerical solutions were compared with analytic solution, and an ad hoc semi-analytical approximate formula is proposed herein and this formula gives very good predictions for the moment of inertia of the liquid in a tank of several different geometrical shapes. The results of this study will be useful in analyzing of the motion of LNG/LPG tanker, liquid cargo ship, and damaged ship.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.307-313
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• 2016

액화 천연가스(LNG)를 운반, 저장하는 화물창은 LNG의 기화를 막기 위해 항상 저온의 상태로 유지되어야 한다. 이러한 극한 환경으로 인해 LNG 화물창에 적용되는 단열시스템의 기술은 상당히 중요하다. 이러한 이유로 LNG 화물창 단열시스템 내에는 구조 및 단열성능을 가지는 적층형 목재인 플라이우드(plywood)가 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나 최근 슬로싱(sloshing)으로 인한 플라이우드의 파손현상이 보고되면서 이를 해결하기 위한 강도적인 보강이 필요할 것으로 보인다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 B타입 LNG 탱크의 지지대로 사용되는 적층형 목재인 압축목재(compressed wood)를 플라이우드를 대체하기 위한 대체 재료로 고려하게 되었다. 이를 위해 압축목재에 대해 압축 및 굽힘시험을 수행하였고 기계적 물성과 파손특성을 확인하였다. 또한 온도와 적층방향을 실험변수로 설정하여 이에 따른 압축 목재의 특성 변화를 분석하였다. 마지막으로 참고문헌을 통해 획득한 플라이우드의 물성과 실험결과를 비교하여 압축 목재의 적용가능성을 평가하였다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.335-342
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• 2019

The objective of this study is to analyze the mechanical properties of plywood used as a thermal insulating material for LNG CCS (Liquefied Natural Gas, Cargo Containment System). It is created by bonding an odd number of parallel and perpendicular direction for preventing contraction and expansion of wood. Also plywood is widely used as LNG CCS insulating material because of its durability, light weight and high stiffness. Since LNG CCS is loaded with liquid cargo, the impact load by sloshing during operation and the wide temperature range (room temperature, low temperature, cryogenic temperature) exposed during loading, unloading should be considered. The thickness of the plywood which is used for the membrane type MARKIII was selected as the thickness of the test specimen. In this present study, plywood is analyzed by the fracture behavior and mechanical properties of plywood by temperature and grain direction. In addition, it is necessary to analyze the fracture shape and predict the fracture strain by using regression model because the critical load may cause cracks inside the tank, which may affect the leakage of cryogenic liquid.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2018

This paper addresses the heading control of an offshore floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) using a resolved motion and acceleration control (RMAC) algorithm. A turret moored vessel tends to have the slewing motion. This slewing motion may cause a considerable decrease in working time in loading and unloading operation because the sloshing in the LNG containment tank might happen and/or the collision between FSRU and LNGC may take place. In order to deal with the downtime problem due to this slewing motion, a heading control system for the turret moored FSRU is developed, and a series of model tests with azimuth thrusters on the FSRU is conducted. A Kalman filter is applied to estimate the low-frequency motion of the vessel. The RMAC algorithm is employed as a primary heading control method and modified I-controller is introduced to reduce the steady-state errors of the heading of the FSRU.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.337-344
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• 2017

환경 문제로 인해 기존 연료를 대체하는 천연가스의 수요가 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라, 액화천연가스 운반선의 화물창이 거대화되면서 화물창 내의 슬로싱 하중이 증가하게 된다. 액화천연가스 화물창의 종류 중 하나인 Mark-III 타입의 1차 방벽은 액화천연가스와 직접적으로 접촉하고 있으며 슬로싱 하중 및 액화천연가스의 자중을 받는다. 슬로싱 하중에 의해 다양한 범위의 하중이 1차 방벽에 지속적으로 작용하며 이로 인해 피로 파괴를 유발할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Mark-III 타입의 1차 방벽을 포함한 단열시스템을 유한요소 모델로 구성하였으며 1차 방벽에 대해 피로수명을 평가하여 피로 특성을 확인하였다. 수치해석을 통해 주응력 범위 및 최대 주응력이 발생하는 위치를 계산하였으며 이를 통해 1차 방벽의 피로수명을 수치적으로 평가하였다. 또한, 다양한 단열시스템 타입에 대해 모델링을 실시하였으며, 피로수명 평가 결과를 통해 1차 방벽의 피로 파괴 안전성을 확보하는 최적의 단열시스템에 대해 제안하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 Mark-III 타입 1차 방벽의 피로 기반 설계에 있어 활용가치가 있을 것으로 판단된다.