• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.418-424
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• 2015

This paper is about the bow structure design of the ship-typed and turret moored FPSO which is subjected to the bow-flare slamming load in harsh North Sea environments. Quad 204 FPSO project involves the redevelopment of the existing Schiehallion FPSO which is damaged by impact wave loads. Normally all offshore systems including FPSO are designed to withstand the 100 year storm I.e. the storm that happens once every hundred years at the location where the system is installed. Several incidents have revealed that impact loading is important issue for moored floating production systems. In this paper, the design impact loads are estimated considering the ship owner’s specification, measured data from model tests, requirements of the classification society rules and results of numerical simulation analyses. The impact pressure by numerical analysis is 1.8 times greater than required value by CSR adopted by IACS. Based on the selected design load, plastic design formulae allowing the local material yielding are applied for the initial scantling of the bow structure. To verify the structural integrity, FE analyses are carried out considering the local area subjected to the impact wave loads. Their results such as structural arrangement, design loads and scantlings are shown and discussed. It is found that plastic design formulae in adopting Initial design phase give sufficiently conservative results in terms of structural strength.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 1999

The bow flare structure of a ship is designed considering wave impact loads largely caused by relative motion of the ship and wave at rough sea. Empirical design is still used because impact phenomenon and structural behaviour due to wave impact load can not examined accurately. The objective of this study is, as the first step, to predict wave impact loads giving the structural damages to the bow flare structure from the damage data inversely, using dynamic nonlinear finite element code LS/DYNA3D, and to perform various parametric studies of wave impact pressure curve for its characteristics, such as peak height, duration time, tail height, rise time, etc.. The followings were obtained from this study: Dynamic structural responses against wave impact loads are largely affected by impact pressure impulse whose amount during duration time until peak deformation is very important.

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.42 no.1 s.143
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• pp.47-50
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• 2005

최근 Containership의 대형화가 진행됨에 따라 선수부의 선형 변화에 따른 선체의 구조부재 배치에 상당한 변화가 필요하게 되었다. 선수구조는 선형 변화 특히, Bow Flare Angle의 작은 변화에도 Bow Impact Pressure가 상당히 민감하게 반응함으로 외력에 의한 구조 배치 변경 및 추가적인 구조보강에 대한 여유를 갖고 설계를 진행할 필요성이 요구된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 선수부의 선형 및 구조 배치 변화에 따른 강도 평가를 구조해석을 통하여 구조 안정성을 검증하였으며, 구조 안정성 평가 절차 및 구조 해석 결과에 따른 구조 최적 배치 및 구조개선 사항을 간략히 정리하였다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2016

The interaction between the hull of ship and free surface of water generates important loads during slamming motion. In the present study, the slamming load applied on the sectional surface of two-dimensional arbitrary bodies has been investigated under several falling velocities. This simulation has been done with the commercial CFD software ANSYS FLUENT^®. Through the conventional MARINTEK experiments for the benchmark of the simulation, we verified the impact pressure values between the experiments and simulation results. Two arbitrary ship bow section models, Panamax-like(with small convex bulb and flare) and Post panamax-like(with large convex bulb and flare) are also investigated. Simulation results show that a maximum impact pressure on the Post panama-like shape is higher than the Panamax-like shape. According to both a lump of water generated by arbitrary shape and various dead-rise angles of the shape, the pressure picks were enhanced in the simulation.

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.56-72
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• 1990

The hydrodynamic aspects of bow flare impact are discussed and the assumptions implicit in typical flare impact calculations are examined. Calculations based upon a pressure release free surface boundary condition are presented. While this simplified boundary condition eliminates the possibility of important factors such as splash-up and above-surface wetting, it has the significant advantage of being computationally simple. Both three-dimensional and two-dimensional results are compared with experiments. Errors resulting from the approximate free surface condition are examined. Also included in the two-dimensional and three-dimensional analysis are longitudinal distributions of the vertical bending moment and vertical shear force.