• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.324-332
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• 2018

It is known that damages to the subsea cables used for electric power transmission between islands and countries, including renewable energy from offshore wind power, current, tides, etc., cost much to restore, which causes social and economic losses. Various types of fishing rigs and anchors have been reported to be the greatest hazards to subsea cables. It is possible to design and construct a suitable protection facility for a subsea cable by precisely estimating the underwater behavior of such hazardous apparatuses. In this study, numerical simulations of the underwater behaviors of various hazardous apparatuses were carried out using fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis as a basic study to simulate the actual behavior phenomena of hazardous apparatuses in relation to a subsea cable. In addition, the underwater drop characteristics according to the types of hazardous apparatuses were compared. In order to verify the accuracy of the FSI analysis method used in this study, we compared the test results for underwater drops of a steel ball bearing. Stock anchors, stockless anchors, and rocket piles, which were actually reported to be the cases of damage to subsea cables along the southwest coast of Korea, were considered as the hazardous apparatuses for the numerical simulations. Each hazardous apparatus was generated by a Lagrangian model and coupled with the fluid domain idealized by the Eulerian equation to construct the three-dimensional FSI analysis model. The accuracy of the numerical simulation results was verified by comparing them with the analytical solutions, and the underwater drop characteristics according to the types of hazard apparatuses were compared.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.299-314
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• 2015

Submersed rock-berm structures are frequently used for protection of underwater lifelines such as pipelines and power cables. During the service life, the rock-berm structure can experience several accidental loads such as anchor collision. The consequences can be severe with a certain level of frequency; hence, the structural responses should be carefully understood for implementing a proper structural health monitoring method. However, no study has been made to quantify the structural responses because it is hard to deal with the individual behavior of each rock. Therefore, this study presents a collision analysis of the submersed rock-berm structure using a finite element software package by facilitating the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The analysis results were compared with those obtained from the Lagrange method. Moreover, two types of anchors (stock anchor and stockless anchor), three collision points and two different drop velocities (terminal velocity of each anchor and 5 m/s) were selected to investigate the changes in the responses. Finally, the effect of these parameters (analysis method, anchor type, collision point and drop velocity) on the analysis results was studied. Accordingly, the effectiveness of the SPH method is verified, a safe rock-berm height (over 1 m) is proposed, and a gauge point (0.5 m above the seabed) is suggested for a structural health monitoring implementation.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2017

수중환경에서는 전력 공급이 어렵기 때문에 통신 프로토콜 설계에 있어서 전력 효율은 중요한 고려사항들 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 UUV(Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)와 AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) 같은 이동 노드를 갖는 수중통신망에 대해 에너지 효율적인 매체접속제어(MAC : Medium Access Control) 프로토콜을 연구하였다. 이동 노드간의 통신에서는 데이터 교환 중에 노드 이동으로 인해 서로의 전파 반경을 벗어나 전송 중인 데이터를 완료하지 못하고 에너지만 낭비하는 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 특히, 수중 통신 채널 환경에서는 지상보다 약 $10^5$ 배의 느린 전파 지연을 가지므로 데이터의 전송 완료 전에 서로의 전파 반경을 벗어날 확률이 지상보다 커서 이로 인한 에너지 낭비가 더 많게 된다. 제안한 mobility-MAC 프로토콜은 수신노드의 위치와 노드의 이동 속도를 고려하여 Dropping Zone을 정의하고 데이터 전송 시도를 제어한다. 데이터 전송시도는 Dropping Zone에서 무조건 데이터 전송을 드롭(drop)을 하는 것이 아니라, 데이터 전송 중 노드가 전파 반경을 이탈할 확률을 예측하여 드롭하는 방법이다. 결과적으로, 조건적 드롭을 통해 잘못된 드롭을 감소시켜 전송지연과 통신수율의 향상을 가져왔고 유효한 데이터 드롭으로 에너지 낭비를 방지하여 에너지 효율도 증가되었다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.377-400
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• 2016

Dropped objects are among the top ten causes of fatalities and serious injuries in the oil and gas industry (DORIS, 2016). Objects may accidentally fall down from platforms or vessels during lifting or any other offshore operation. Proper planning of lifting operations requires the knowledge of the risk-free zone on the sea bed to protect underwater structures and equipment. To this end a three-dimensional (3D) theory of dynamic motion of dropped cylindrical object is expanded to also consider ocean currents. The expanded theory is integrated into the authors' Dropped Objects Simulator (DROBS). DROBS is utilized to simulate the trajectories of dropped cylinders falling through uniform currents originating from different directions (incoming angle at $0^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$, $180^{\circ}$, and $270^{\circ}$). It is found that trajectories and landing points of dropped cylinders are greatly influenced by the direction of current. The initial conditions after the cylinders have fallen into the water are treated as random variables. It is assumed that the corresponding parameters orientation angle, translational velocity, and rotational velocity follow normal distributions. The paper presents results of DROBS simulations for the case of a dropped cylinder with initial drop angle at $60^{\circ}$ through air-water columns without current. Then the Monte Carlo simulations are used for predicting the landing point distributions of dropped cylinders with varying drop angles under current. The resulting landing point distribution plots may be used to identify risk free zones for offshore lifting operations.