• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.454-467
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• 2013

A practical Ship Inner Shell Optimization Method (SISOM), the purpose of which is to improve the safety of the seagoing transport ship by decreasing the maximum Still Water Bending Moment (SWBM) of the hull girder under all typical loading conditions, is presented in this paper. The objective of SISOM is to make the maximum SWBM minimum, and the section areas of the inner shell are taken as optimization variables. The main requirements of the ship performances, such as cargo hold capacity, propeller and rudder immersion, bridge visibility, damage stability and prevention of pollution etc., are taken as constraints. The penalty function method is used in SISOM to change the above nonlinear constraint problem into an unconstrained one, which is then solved by applying the steepest descent method. After optimization, the optimal section area distribution of the inner shell is obtained, and the shape of inner shell is adjusted according to the optimal section area. SISOM is applied to a product oil tanker and a bulk carrier, and the maximum SWBM of the two ships is significantly decreased by changing the shape of inner shell plate slightly. The two examples prove that SISOM is highly efficient and valuable to engineering practice.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.980-998
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• 2023

In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, satellites operate fast and the inter-satellite link change period is short. In order to sense the spectrum state in LEO satellite networks in real-time, a space-based satellite network intelligent spectrum sensing algorithm based on artificial neural network (ANN) is proposed, while Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites are introduced to make fast and effective judgments on the spectrum state of LEO satellites by using their stronger arithmetic power. Firstly, the visibility constraints between LEO satellites and GEO satellites are analyzed to derive the inter-satellite link building matrix and complete the inter-satellite link situational awareness. Secondly, an ANN-based energy detection (ANN-ED) algorithm is proposed based on the traditional energy detection algorithm and artificial neural network. The ANN module is used to determine the spectrum state and optimize the traditional energy detection algorithm. GEO satellites are used to fuse the information sensed by LEO satellites and then give the spectrum decision, thereby realizing the inter-satellite spectrum state sensing. Finally, the sensing quality is evaluated by the analysis of sensing delay and sensing energy consumption. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm has lower complexity, the sensing delay and sensing energy consumption compared with the traditional energy detection method.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.312-317
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• 2015

선박은 충돌, 좌초 및 화재 등의 여러 가지 원인으로 승객 및 선원들이 긴급 피난을 해야 하는 경우가 많이 발생한다. 일반적으로 모든 피난에서 생존율을 높이기 위해서는 피난 시간의 단축이 아주 중요한 요소이나 선박의 복잡하고 좁은 구조적 특성은 신속한 피난에 장애 요소가 되고 있다. 특히, 선박은 그 구조상 동일한 규모의 화재 발생 시 타 화재에 비해 확산속도가 빨라 신속한 피난이 필요하다. 또한, 선박은 해상에서 운항하는 특성으로 좋지 않은 해상 상태에서는 승객 및 선원이 행동적 제약이 발생한다. 이 연구에서는 인명 안전 차원에서 선박 구조 변경이 승객 및 선원의 생존율 향상에 미치는 영향에 대해 이론적 접근 및 수치 시뮬레이션을 통해 분석하고자 한다. 분석 도구로는 3차원 화재분석 전용 프로그램인 FDS(Fire Dynamic Simulator)를 이용하였으며 화재 시 인명 안전에 영향을 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 온도 상승 및 가시거리 감소를 분석하였다. 그 결과 선박의 복도 폭 및 천장의 높이만 개선하여도 인명 안전에 상당한 도움이 되는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.339-366
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• 2018

Parametric design systems serve as powerful assistive tools in the design process by providing a flexible approach for the generation of a vast number of design alternatives. However, contemporary parametric design systems focus primarily on low-level engineering and structural forms, without an explicit means to also take into account high-level, cognitively motivated people-centred design goals. We present a precedent-based parametric design method that integrates people-centred design "precedents" rooted in empirical evidence directly within state of the art parametric design systems. As a use-case, we illustrate the general method in the context of an empirical study focusing on the multi-modal analysis of wayfinding behaviour in two large-scale healthcare environments. With this use-case, we demonstrate the manner in which: (1). a range of empirically established design precedents -e.g., pertaining to visibility and navigation- may be articulated as design constraints to be embedded directly within state of the art parametric design tools (e.g., Grasshopper); and (2). embedded design precedents lead to the (parametric) generation of a number of morphologies that satisfy people-centred design criteria (in this case, pertaining to wayfinding). Our research presents an exemplar for the integration of cognitively motivated design goals with parametric design-space exploration methods. We posit that this opens-up a range of technological challenges for the engineering and development of next-generation computer aided architecture design systems.