• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.289-295
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• 2003

The international oil majors have been reducing the size of their own oil tanker fleet since early 1980s. Like international oil majors, the Korean refineries are becoming more dependent on tanker chartering rather than tanker ownership for their oil transportation since the 1990s. They also prefer spot charter to time charter and this kind of trend has continued up to now. Consequently, this paper attempted to find the factors influencing changes in tanker fleet composition. To attain the object of the paper, an empirical study is adopted using the ten decision-making factors derived from preceeding studies. The findings are that MARPOL and OPA 90, and transportation costs are the most important factors influencing an oil tanker fleet composition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.73-87
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• 2002

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.43 no.1 s.145
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• pp.43-49
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• 2006

The hull form of icebreaking tanker depends on the trade route and ice characteristic. The hull form has to be designed for icebreaking concept if the vessel is operating in heavy ice and also the hull from has to be optimized for general tanker when the ship is operating in ice-free ocean. This paper presents comparison of ship resistance in pack ice, level ice and open water. Four ships are used to compare the resistance characteristic. One is conventional tanker and three ships are icebreaking tankers. The ice model test was carried out at the IOT (Institute for Ocean Technology, Newfoundland, Canada) and open water test was performed at 55MB (Samsung Ship Model Basin). The ice resistance of conventional tanker was predicted by Colbourne's method. The resistance of open water, pack ice and level ice are compared and discussed. The best hull form of icebreaker is not good in open water performance compare to conventional tanker. This result explains that the hull form of icebreaker and normal tanker have to compromise when the ship is operated in ice and ice-free condition. The result of this paper gives a guide for icebreaking tanker design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.175-176
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• 2006

러시아의 북극해(Northern Sea) 연안은 석유와 천연 가스등 자원이 대규모로 매장된 곳이어서 근래에는 해상을 통한 수송 방법이 적극적으로 추진되고 있다. 최근 쇄빙기능을 가진 컨테이너, 유조선이 발주되었으며 향후 쇄빙 LNG 운반선도 발주될 예정이다. 국내에서는 2005년 말 최초로 러시아 Sovcomflot 에서 발주한 쇄빙유조선 70K Arctic Shuttle Tanker 를 수주하였으며 Ambient air temperature $-40^{\circ}C$(Extreme low temperature $-40^{\circ}C$) 에 적용한 Winterization 에 대해 설명하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 1998

This paper descirbes a series of numberical simulations of grounding accidents of four 40,000 DWT Conventional and Advanced Double Hull tanker bottom structures using LS/DYNA3D. The overall objective of this study is no understand the structural failure and energy absorbing mechanisms during grounding events for candidate double hull tanker bottom structures, which lead to the initiation of inner shell rupture and cause the kinetic energy dissipation to bring the ship to a stop. These nuberical simulations of the grounding events will contribute to future improvements in tanker safety at the design stage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.257-264
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• 2003

The international oil majors have been reducing the size of their own oil tanker fleet since from the beginning of 1980s. Like international oil majors, the Korean refineries are getting more dependent on tanker chartering than tanker ownership for their oil transportation since 1990s. They also prefer spot charter to time charter and this kind of trend continue up to today. Consequently, this paper attempted to find out factors influencing changes in tanker fleet composition. To attain the object, a empirical study is adopted using the ten decision making factors derived from the preceeding study. The findings are that MARPOL and OPA 90, and transportation cost are the most important factors influencing on oil tanker fleet composition.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 1998

Traffic density has increased recently in Korean waters due to an expansion of the sea trade and the development of coastal fisheries. The enlargement of the coastal industrial belts and the development of coastal inslands further increases marine traffic. The rapid increase of marine traffic has often resulted in marine casualties with the attendant loss of life, damage to property, and marine pollution. Especially, tanker casualties may destroyed the food web and an untold amount of ocean resources. Un regard to the potential of tanker spills in Korean waters, systematic research in this field is lacking. In this paper, the data relating to a total of 261 tanker casualties in Korean waters has been compiled and statistically anlaysed. The result of this study describes the general trend of marine casualties in Korean waters, and describes the casualtiy database, from which their causes and consequences are derived and this results in the determination of the causal relationships connected to tanker casualties, and quantifies the effective level of causal factorsin Korean waters.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.161-167
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• 2007

It is dangerous that an inspector overhauls defects and condition of the inner parts of an oil tanker because of many harmful gases, complex structures, and etc. However, these inspections are necessary to many oil tankers over old years. In this study, we proposed the design of mobile robot for inspection of CAS in oil tanker. The developed CAS inspection mobile robot has four modules, a measurement module of oil tanker's thickness, a corrosion inspection module, a climbing module of the surface on a wall, and a monitoring module. In order to get over at a check position, the driving control algorithm was developed. Magnetic wheels are used to move on the surface of a wall. This study constructed a communication network and the monitoring program to operate the developed mobile robot from remote sites. In order to evaluate the inspection ability, the experiments about performance of CAS inspection using the developed mobile robot have been carried out.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

This paper addresses the derivation of 6-DOF equation of Tanker and Receiver's aircraft for aerial refueling. The new set of nonlinear equations are derived in terms of the relative translational and rotational motion of receiver aircraft respect to the tanker aircraft body frame. Further the wind effect terms due to the tanker's turbulence are included. The derivation of absolute dynamic equation for tanker aircraft written in the inertial frame is calculated from the relative dynamics equations of receiver. The derived relative and absolute equations are implemented the simulation in the same flight conditions to verify the relative motion and compare the trim results by using the MATLAB/SIMULINK program.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.100-108
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• 2000

As U.S. congress and I.M.O. have recently adopted strengthened MARPOL73/78 regulations on marine pollution, it is necessary to develope a new type of tankers such as Double hull tanker(D/H Tanker) and Mid-deck tanker(M/D Tanker) and so on. Because most of researches are concentrated on the volume of oil spill due to collision of ships, in this paper, a structural design program for D/H Tankers and M/D Tankers is developed to suggest the effective type of tankers by comparing structural characteristics between their types. By this program, minimum hull weight designs of D/H tankers and M/D tankers considering tank arrangement are performed and the design results are compared each other. The efficient types of hull structure for the minimum weight design between D/H tankers and M/D tankers is proposed.