• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.252-267
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• 2015

Offshore structures might encounter several environmental and operating conditions during their lifetime of several decades. In order to predict the dynamic behavior of offshore structures, several simulation cases should be considered to deal with all the combinations of ocean environments and operating conditions. Because a sophisticated time-domain coupled dynamic analysis requires an extremely large amount of computational time to handle all the possible cases, an efficient preliminary process to prescreen the probability of severe environmental conditions can be helpful in downsizing the number of simulation cases and computational effort. In this study, a prescreening procedure to reduce the number of environmental conditions for dynamic analyses of offshore structures is proposed. For the efficiency of the procedure, frequency-domain theories were adopted to estimate the platform offset, using quasi-static analyses in line tension prediction. The results were validated by comparing with those of dynamic analysis coupled between platform and mooring lines, and reasonable agreement was observed. In addition, the characteristics of environmental conditions classified to be severe to the system were investigated through the application of the developed prescreening scheme to several actual environmental conditions.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.4447-4454
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• 2013

2011년 10월 국내 최초로 다목적댐 저수지에 100kW급 수상태양광발전 상용화 실증 플랜트가 합천댐에 설치되었다. 수상태양광발전 설비는 육상에 설치하는 태양광발전 설비와는 달리 수상부유체, 계류장치, 수중케이블 등 설치에 많은 어려움이 있다. 특히 수상이라는 환경적 제약으로 인해 육상 태양광 시공 방법으로 공정 관리를 할 수 없는 많은 변수가 속출한다. 수상태양광발전의 구조체는 수상태양광 모듈 및 기타 전기설비를 수상에 부상시키기 위한 설비로서 바람이나 태풍 등 기상환경에 견뎌야 하고 수질에 악영향을 미치지 말아야하며 시공성, 경제성 등 종합적인 고려가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 100kW 수상태양광 시공사례를 바탕으로 수상태양광의 구조체, 계류장치, 수중케이블, 전력설비 및 원격감시제어시스템의 시공기술에 대한 기초자료를 제공하였다. 본 연구에서 시공된 100kW 수상태양광은 현재 평균 설비이용률 15%로 운영중에 있다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.609-618
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• 2024

System reliability prediction in the development stage is increasingly crucial to reliability growth management to satisfy its target reliability, since modern system usually takes a form of complex composition and various complicated functions. In most cases of development stage, however, the information available for system reliability prediction is very limited, making it difficult to predict system reliability more precisely as in the production and operating stages. In this study, a system reliability prediction process is considered when the reliability-related information such as SIL (Safety Integrity Level) and MTTFd (Mean Time to Dangerous Failure) is available in the development stage. It is suggested that when the SIL or MTTFd of a system component is known and the field operational data of similar system is given, the reliability prediction could be performed using the scaling factor for the SIL or MTTFd value of the component based on the similar system's field operational data analysis. Predicting a system reliability is then adjusted with the conversion factor reflecting the temperature condition of the environment in which the system actually operates. Finally, the case of applying the proposed system reliability prediction process to a high performance mooring platform is dealt with.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.1
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• pp.47-52
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• 2006

Recent warnings indicate that there is a potential risk of massive earthquake in Japan within 30 years. These earthquakes could produce large-scale tsunamis. Tsunamis are very powerful and can be traveled thousands of miles and caused damage in many countries. Consideration of the effect of tsunami to the moored ship is very important because it brings the loss of life and vast property damage. In this paper, the numerical simulation procedure to analyze the motions of a moored ship due to the observed waves of tsunami, Tokachi-off earthquake tsunami profile in northern Pacific coasts of Japan on September 26 in 2003. And the effects on the motions and mooring loads are investigated by numerical simulation. Numerical simulations consist of hydrodynamic analyses in a frequency domain and ship motion analyses in a time domain as the motions of moored ships are examined. As the process begins, the hydrodynamic and waveexciting forces for moored ships must be calculated. Ship motions and mooring forces can then be calculated by solving the equations of motion. In order to investigate the safety evaluation on the motions of moored ship by tsunami attack, we applied a numerical simulation procedure to a 135,000m3 LNG carrier moored at an offshore sea berth.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.412-420
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• 2008

In order to design the large complex structures like VLFS (Very Large Floating Structures), it is essential the cooperation between the experts in various fields; structural engineering expert, fluid mechanics expert, mooring system engineer, and so on. This paper describes the development of an integrated system to support the cooperative design between various experts and project manager. This integrated system is designed to be operated in Web environment and it contains the support of design DB and 3D graphical tool, negotiation tool for task allocation, and various engineering supporting tools for each design step. The user group of this system can be classified as Project Manager, Engineering Expert, DB Builder, and System Administrator. All of the engineering data is saved after and during the process of the design projects and all participants can be connected by Internet without the limit of time or space constraints.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.371-382
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• 2009

Response of harbor structure to environmental loads such as wave load, impact load, ship's contacting load, is a fundamental factor in designing of the structure's optimal configuration. In this paper, typical environmental loads against coastal structures are investigated for designing of the optimal harbor structure. Loads to be considered here are wave load, impact load and contacting load due to ship mooring. Statistical analysis for several harbor structure types under the corresponding loads is carried out, followed by investigation of effect of individual environmental load. Based on these, the optimal configuration for the harbor structure is obtained after considerable engineering process. Estimation of contacting load of the ship is suggested using effective energy concepts for the load, and analysis of structural behavior is done for the optimal designing of the structure in the particular load. A guideline for the design process of the harbor structure is established, and safety of the structure is examined by proposed scheme. For verification of the analytical approach, various steel-piled coastal structures and caissons are chosen and relevant structural analyses are carried out using the Finite Element Methods combined with MIDAS/GTS and ANSYS code. It is found using the Morison equation that impact load cannot be a major load in the typical harbor structure compared with the original wave load, and that configuration shape of the structure may play an important role in consideration of the response criteria.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2018

In this paper, safety analysis of the process of installing offshore structures such as manifolds and jacket-type substructures using floating cranes and barges in waves is performed. The safety analysis consists of three components. First, the dynamic responses of the offshore structure, cranes, and barge, all of which are moored and connected using wire ropes, are analyzed. Second, tensions in the wire ropes connecting the cranes and the offshore structures are calculated. Finally, any collision between the offshore structure and the cranes or the barge that transports the offshore structure is detected. Equations of motion of the offshore structure, cranes, and barge are formulated based on multibody dynamics, as well as considering the hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, and mooring forces. Additionally, proportional-derivative control of the tagline between the cranes and the offshore structure is performed to verify the safety of the installation process, as well as for reducing the dynamic response and collisions among them.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집(제1권)
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• pp.57-62
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• 2006

동북아의 허브항만으로 건설중인 부산신항만은 태풍 매미로 인해 480억원에 이르는 큰 피해를 입었다. 국내의 현행 항만설계기준을 보면 항만 정온도 기준은 선박규모별 항내 한계파고만이 규정되어있다. 그러나, 항만의 연중 이용일수를 나타내는 항만 가동률은 화물을 싣고 내리는 하역작업의 효율에 달려있으며, 하역효율은 다시 접안선박의 파랑에 의한 동요 및 하역기계의 성능에 따라 결정된다. 선박의 동요는 파고뿐만 아니라 주기에 따라서도 충분히 달라질 수 있으며 해 ${\cdot}$ 조류, 바람 등의 외력조건, 계류시스템의 특성과 선박의 제원 등의 복합적인 요인에 의하여 결정된다. 본 연구에서는 수치실험 및 관측 자료를 통해 평상시의 항만 가동률을 산정하고자 한다. 특히, 부산신항만의 개발초기단계에서의 계획으로부터 수심을 증심시킴과 아울러, 매립범위 및 해안선 형태 등 다양한 변화가 건설과정에서 나타났고 이를 본 연구에서 반영하여 상세해역과 장래 개발해역 둥에서 항만가동율을 재산정하였다. 파랑변형과정의 이해와 분석을 돕기 위하여 관련해역에서 정상상태 스펙트럼모델과 확장 완경사 파랑 모델을 부산신항역에 적용하여 항만반응 특성을 분석하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.120-126
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• 2011

The fatigue damages in structural details of offshore plants can be accumulated due to various environmental loadings such as swell, wave, wind and current. It is known that load histories acting on mooring and riser systems show stationary and ergodic bimodal wide-banded process. This paper provides refined approach to obtain time signals representing stress range histories from wide-banded bimodal spectrum which consists of ideally narrow-banded and fully separated two spectrums. Variations of the probabilistic characteristics for time signals according to frequency and sampling time increments are compared with the reference data to be the probabilistic characteristics such as zero-crossing period, peak period, and irregularity factor obtained from an assumed ideal spectrum. It is proved that the sampling time increment more affects on the probabilistic characteristics than frequency increment. The fatigue damages according to the frequency and sampling time increments are also compared with the ones with minimum increment condition which are thought to be exact fatigue damage. It is concluded that the maximum sampling time increment to obtain reliable time signals should be determined that ratio of applied maximum sampling time increment and minimum period is less than approximately 0.08.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2019

Interest in renewable energy is rapidly growing around the world. One of the most popular renewable energy sources is solar power, and photovoltaic (PV) systems are the most representative route for generating solar energy. However, with the growing adoption of solar power systems, the demand for land on which to install these systems has increased, which has caused environmental degradation. Recently, floating PV systems have been designed to utilize idle water surface areas of dams, rivers, and oceans. Because floating PV systems will be exposed to harsh environmental stresses, the safety of such systems should be secured before installation. In this study, the structural robustness of a floating PV system was analyzed by conducting numerical simulation to investigate whether the system can withstand harsh environmental stresses, such as wind and wave loads. Additionally, conventional wind and wave load predictions based on the design method and the simulation results were compared. The comparison revealed that the design method overestimated wind and wave loads. The total drag of the PV system was significantly overestimated by the conventional design criteria, which would increase the cost of the mooring system. The simulation offers additional advantages in terms of identifying the robustness of the floating PV system because it considers real-world environmental factors.