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A Study on Hull Deflection and Shaft Alignment Interaction in VLCC

  • Lee Yong-Jin;Kim Ue-Kan
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.785-794
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    • 2005
  • Modern ship hulls of large oil carriers and container carrers have become more flexible with scantling optimization and increase in ship length. On the other hand. as the demand for power has increased with the ship size. shaft diameters have become larger and stiffer. Consequently. the alignment of the propulsion system has become more sensitive to hull girder deflections. resulting in difficulties in analyzing the alignment and conducting the alignment procedure. Accordingly. the frequency of shaft alignment related bearing damages has increased significantly in recent years. The alignment related damages are mostly attributed to inadequate analyses. changes in the design of the vessel. shipyards' practices in conducting the alignment. and a lack of well defined analytical criteria. The hull deflections should be considered at the design stage to minimize the bearing damage caused by hull deflection. Hull deflections can be estimated by analytical approach and reverse calculation using the measured data. The hull girder deflection analysis using the reverse calculation will be introduced in this paper.

Glass FRP-Bonded RC Beams under Cyclic Loading

  • Tan, Kiang-Hwee;Saha, Mithun-Kumar
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2007
  • Ten beams bonded with glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates were tested under cyclic loading with the load range and the FRP reinforcement ratio as test parameters. The maximum load level during cyclic loading was 55%, 65% and 75% of the static flexural strength while the minimum load level was kept constant at 35%. Deflections of the beams at the end of 525000 cycles were found to increase by 16% and 44% when the maximum load level was increased from 55% to 65% and 75% of the static flexural strength, respectively. Beams with FRP reinforcement ratios of 0.64% and 1.28% were found to exhibit lesser deflections of about 15% and 20%, respectively, compared to a similar beam without FRP reinforcement. An analytical approach based on cycle-dependent effective moduli of elasticity of concrete and FRP reinforcement is presented and found to predict the deflections of the test beams well.

Effective moment of inertia for rectangular elastoplastic beams

  • Faller, Ronald K.;Rosson, Barry T.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 1999
  • An effective moment of inertia is developed for a rectangular, prismatic elastoplastic beam with elastic, linear-hardening material behavior. The particular solution for a beam with elastic, perfectly plastic material behavior is also presented with applications for beam bending in closed-form. Equations are presented for the direct application of the virtual work method for elastoplastic beams with concentrated and distributed loads. Comparisons are made between the virtual work method deflections and the deflections obtained by using an average effective moment of inertia over two lengths of the beam in the elastoplastic region.

A multivariate adaptive regression splines model for estimation of maximum wall deflections induced by braced excavation

  • Xiang, Yuzhou;Goh, Anthony Teck Chee;Zhang, Wengang;Zhang, Runhong
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.315-324
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    • 2018
  • With rapid economic growth, numerous deep excavation projects for high-rise buildings and subway transportation networks have been constructed in the past two decades. Deep excavations particularly in thick deposits of soft clay may cause excessive ground movements and thus result in potential damage to adjacent buildings and supporting utilities. Extensive plane strain finite element analyses considering small strain effect have been carried out to examine the wall deflections for excavations in soft clay deposits supported by diaphragm walls and bracings. The excavation geometrical parameters, soil strength and stiffness properties, soil unit weight, the strut stiffness and wall stiffness were varied to study the wall deflection behaviour. Based on these results, a multivariate adaptive regression splines model was developed for estimating the maximum wall deflection. Parametric analyses were also performed to investigate the influence of the various design variables on wall deflections.

A Study on the Springback for Three Point Bending (3점 굽힘에서의 스프링백에 관한 연구)

  • 이호용;황병복
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.401-414
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    • 1994
  • Springback for the three point bending is anlayzed and experimented. Neutral axis is assumed to remain at the midthickness for large ratio of radius of curvature to thickness. Pure bending theory is used to be extended to the analysis of the springback for three point bending. The specimen is thought to be divided into numerous small elements. The theory for pure bending is then adopted for analysis of each element to obtain springback in terms of the relationship between initial and final deflections. the boundary conditions between neighborhood elements are the deflection and slope which should be the same. Deflection is calculated by summing up the deflections of each element. Experiments have been performed for different conditions which are punch radius, span length, and initial deflections. Comparisons between the analytical solution and experimental results show the same trends.

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EFFECT OF CONCRETE STRENGTH ON FLEXURAL DEFLECTION OF HIGH-STRENGTH REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS

  • Inju Lee;Taewan Kim;Sung-Nam Hong;Jie Cui;Sun-Kyu Park
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1313-1317
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    • 2009
  • Deflections of Reinforced concrete structures must satisfy the permissible values and it is hard to predict the due to uncertainty of deflection of the reinforced concrete structures. Thus, many researchers have suggested a number of experimental equation of deflection against the uncertainty. In a specification, a procedure to evaluate flexure deflection using effective moment of inertia and moment-curvature relation is suggested. ACI offers a method using effective moment of inertia, which has been developed by Branson. Eurocode 2(EC2) suggests a procedure to evaluate deflection of reinforced concrete structure using moment-curvature relation. In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted on the singly reinforced concrete beams which have the same reinforcement ratio and different concrete strength. Therefore, the effect of the concrete strength on the deflection of the beams was analysed. The deflections obtained from the experiment were compared with the deflections calculated with ACI code and EC2.

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Response of forced Euler-Bernoulli beams using differential transform method

  • Catal, Seval
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.95-119
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, forced vibration differential equations of motion of Euler-Bernoulli beams with different boundary conditions and dynamic loads are solved using differential transform method (DTM), analytical solutions. Then, the modal deflections of these beams are obtained. The calculated modal deflections using DTM are represented in tables and depicted in graphs and compared with the results of the analytical solutions where a very good agreement is observed.

Field Test to Investigate Dynamic Characteristics of Steel Plate Girder Railway Bridges without Ballast (무도상 판형교의 동적거동특성 분석을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • 최진유;오지택;김현민;이상배
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.678-683
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    • 2002
  • Field measurements were conducted to analysis dynamic characteristics of existing steel plate girder railway bridges without ballast. Three bridges which have 9m, 12m, 18m span length in Kyoung-Bu and Ho-Nam Line were selected for test. According to the each bridge, dynamic vertical deflections and vertical and horizontal accelerations were measured. Natural frequencies, vertical deflections and accelerations obtained from field tests were compared with the limit value specified in the UC, Japanese and Korean railway bridge specification.

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Free Vibrations of Beams with Static Deflections due to Dead Loads (사하중에 의한 정적 처짐을 고려한 보의 자유진동)

  • 이병구;박광규;오상진;모정만
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.451-457
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    • 1994
  • A numerical method is presented to obtain natural frequencies and mode shapes of uniform elastic beams with static deflections due to dead loads. The differential equation governing the free vibration of beam taken into account the static deflection due to deal loads is derived and solved numerically. The hinged-hinged, clamped-clamped and clamped-hinged end constraints are applied in the numerical examples. As the numerical results, the lowest three nondimensional frequency parameters are reported as functions of nondimensional system parameters; the load parameters, and the slenderness rations. And some typical mode shapes of free vibrations are also presented in figures.

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Applications of Practical Analysis Scheme for Evaluating Effects of Over-Loads during Construction on Deflections of Flat Plate System (플랫 플레이트 시스템의 처짐에 대한 시공 중 과하중의 영향 평가를 위한 실용해석 기법의 적용)

  • Kim, Jae-Yo
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.25-34
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    • 2009
  • RC flat plate, which has no large flexural stiffness by boundary beams, may be governed by serviceability as well as strength condition. A construction sequence and its impact on distributions of construction loads among slabs tied by shores are decisive factors on immediate and long term performances of flat plate. The over-loading and tensile cracking in early-aged slabs significantly increase the deflection of flat plate system. In this study, for slab deflections, the practical analysis scheme using a linear analysis program is formulated with considering construction sequence and concrete cracking effects. The concept of the effective moment of inertia in calculating deflections of one-way bending member, that is presented in structural design codes, is extended to the finite element analysis of the two-way slab system of flat plates. Effects of over-loads during construction on deflections of flat plate system are analyzed by applying the proposed practical analysis scheme into the critical construction load conditions calculated from the simplified method.