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Coupled Motion Simulation of the Mobile Harbor and Anti-Rolling Devices in Waves

  • Yoon, Hyeon-Kyu;Kang, Joo-Nyun;Lew, Jae-Moon;Moon, Seok-Joon;Chung, Tae-Young
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.271-279
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    • 2010
  • The Mobile Harbor(MH) is a new transportation platform that can load and unload containers to and from very large container ships in the sea. This loading and unloading by crane can be performed with only very small movements of the MH in waves because MH is operated outside of the harbor. For this reason, an anti-rolling tank(ART) and an active mass driving system(AMD) were designed to reduce MH's roll motion, especially at the natural frequency of MH. In the conceptual design stage, it is difficult to confirm the design result of theses anti-rolling devices without modeling and simulation tools. Therefore, the coupled MH and anti-rolling devices' dynamic equations in waves were derived and a simulation program that can analyze the roll reduction performance in various conditions, such as sea state, wave direction, and so on, was developed. The coupled equations are constructed as an eight degrees of freedom (DOF) motion that consists of MH's six DOF dynamics and the ART's and AMD's control variables. In order to conveniently include the ART's and AMD's control dynamics in the time domain, MH's radiated wave force was described by an impulse response function derived by the damping coefficient obtained in the frequency domain, and wave exciting forces such as Froude-Krylov force and diffraction force and nonlinear buoyancy were calculated at every simulation time interval. Finally, the roll reduction performances of the designed anti-rolling devices were successfully assessed in the various loading and wave conditions by using a developed simulation program.

Thrust and Aerodynamic Load Characteristics of an Internal Pintle Thruster (노즐 목 내부형 핀틀추력기의 추력 및 공력하중 특성)

  • Choi, Junsub;Kim, Dongyeon;Huh, Hwanil
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2017
  • Numerical computations are performed to investigate the effect of pintle stroke on the performance of an internal pintle thruster. Results show that the thrust control ratio was less than 2% and the aerodynamic load ratio was 22% as the pintle stroke increased. The flow past the nozzle throat rapidly expanding because of the shape of the pintle, and a shock wave was generated. Particularly, at the pintle stroke distance of 4 and 5 mm, the shock wave hit the wall of the nozzle, results in peeling bubbles. Depending on the altitude, the thrust increased and the aerodynamic load decreased, but the difference was as small as 1.5%. In the presence of the bore, the reduction of the pintle tip area resulted in a decrease in aerodynamic load.

Design of harmonic reduction equipment for load system (부하설비의 고조파 저감장치 설계)

  • Son, Jae-Hyun;Cho, Yang-Heang;Kim, Je-Hong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10b
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this study is to design a passive filter for the elimination of harmonics. For this design, the harmonics wave generating from the six pulse rectifier was measured and its characteristics were analyzed. We also calculated the quantity of harmonic current by changing the system operational conditions. According to this field data and calculated results, we determined the elements of the passive filter. The simulation and experimental results indicate the efficiency of designed passive filter.

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A Study on a Radar Absorbing Structure for Aircraft Leading Edge Application

  • Baek, Sang Min;Lee, Won Jun;Joo, Young Sik
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.215-221
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    • 2017
  • An electromagnetic (EM) wave absorber reduces the possibility of radar detection by minimizing the radar cross section (RCS) of structures. In this study, a radar absorbing structure (RAS) was applied to the leading edge of a blended wing body aircraft to reduce RCS in X-band (8.2~12.4GHz) radar. The RAS was composed of a periodic pattern resistive sheet with conductive lossy material and glass-fiber/epoxy composite as a spacer. The applied RAS is a multifunctional composite structure which has both electromagnetic (EM) wave absorbing ability and load-bearing ability. A two dimensional unit absorber was designed first in a flat-plate shape, and then the fabricated leading edge structure incorporating the above RAS was investigated, using simulated and free-space measured reflection loss data from the flat-plate absorber. The leading edge was implemented on the aircraft, and its RCS was measured with respect to various azimuth angles in both polarizations (VV and HH). The RCS reduction effect of the RAS was evaluated in comparison with a leading edge of carbon fabric reinforced plastics (CFRP). The designed leading edge structure was examined through static structural analysis for various aircraft load cases to check structural integrity in terms of margin of safety. The mechanical and structural characteristics of CFRP, RAS and CFRP with RAM structures were also discussed in terms of their weight.

Development of manufacturing technology of Wave Dissipating Block with industrial byproduct (산업부산물을 활용한 소파블럭 제조기술 개발)

  • Han Sang-Mook;Cho Myoung-Suk;Song Young-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2005.05b
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2005
  • Reclamation coal ash, which is generated as a byproduct at a coal thermal power plant is not recycled but dumped into an ash landfill disposal site. Furthermore, various byproducts and wastes have been proposed for use from the point of reduction in the environmental load. Authors have started research to develope manufacturing technology of concrete mixture design method with large amount of land reclamation coal ash. In this study an optimum mix proportion design for utilizing the reclamation coal ash and containing copper slags as an aggregate for secondary concrete products such as a wave dissipating blocks was successfully developed.

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Application of lattice probabilistic neural network for active response control of offshore structures

  • Kim, Dong Hyawn;Kim, Dookie;Chang, Seongkyu
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.153-162
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    • 2009
  • The reduction of the dynamic response of an offshore structure subjected to wind-generated random ocean waves is of extreme significance in the aspects of serviceability, fatigue life and safety of the structure. In this study, a new neuro-control scheme is applied to the vibration control of a fixed offshore platform under random wave loads to examine the applicability of the proposed method. It is called the Lattice Probabilistic Neural Network (LPNN), as it utilizes lattice pattern of state vectors as the training data of PNN. When control results of the LPNN are compared with those of the NN and PNN, LPNN showed better performance in effectively suppressing the structural responses in a shorter computational time.

An Assessment of Structure Safety for Basic Insulation Panel of KC-1 LNG Cargo Containment system under Sloshing Load (슬로싱 하중을 받는 한국형 LNG선 화물창(KC-1)의 보냉 판넬에 대한 구조 안전성 평가)

  • Jin, Kyo-Kook;Oh, Byung-Taek;Kim, Young-Kyun;Yoon, Ihn-Soo;Yang, Young-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.85-89
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of the development of KC-1 LNG cargo containment system is reduction in royalty and increase in competitiveness of shipbuilding industry. An assessment of structure safety for LNG cargo containment system under sloshing load due to ship motion has become an important design element. The ideal way is to implement fully interaction of the fluid domain and the cargo containment system. However the irregular sloshing pressure were idealized in the form of a triangular wave for safety assessment because the fluid- structure interaction analysis is taken the extensive computation time and difficult to ensure the accuracy of the results. In this study, the sloshing load was assumed to be a triangular wave with a maximum pressure of 10 bar during 15/1000 seconds. In the analytic results, the basic insulation panel of KC-1 LNG cargo containment system was assessed to be structurally safe for sloshing load.

Sleeper Spacing Optimization for Vibration Reduction in Rails (철로의 진동제어를 위한 침목 간격 최적설계)

  • Batjargal, Sodbilig;Abe, Kazuhisa;Koro, Kazuhiro
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.569-577
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    • 2012
  • In this study, a theoretical investigation of optimized sleeper spacing which can suppress resonances of a railway track is attempted. To achieve this, we introduced a minimization problem in which the objective function is given by the wave transmittance and the design variable is defined by sleeper distribution. In the analysis the rail is modeled by a Timoshenko beam and the sleeper is represented by a mass. The infinite track analysis is realized by attaching the transmitting boundaries at both ends of the finite optimization region. Through numerical analyses the sleeper spacing effective in reduction of the transmittance is discussed. Furthermore, the feasibility of the proposed method is validated in the aspect of vibration reduction through response analyses for a harmonic load.

Reduction of Current Harmonic Occurred form between Uninterruptible Powers Supply and Rectifier Load (정류기 부하와 무정전전원장치 사이에 발생되는 Current Harmonic 저감)

  • 곽철훈;반한식;최규하;목형수
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 1999.07a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 1999
  • The main purpose of the UPS is to supply independent and stable power to connected equipment. In installing and operating the UPS system, songle module, three phase UPS in more benefit than multi module, songle phase UPS in the point of volume and cost. However, when supplying Rectifier with output power form three phase UPS, by connecting auto-transformer, occurred harmonic and ripple current makes output filter damaged and leads to nonlinear current coasted by unbalance load. Therefor, in this paper the aim of concentring compound-wound transformer and harmonic filter is supplying liner current by reducing harmonic and ripple current and improving unbalance in voltage and distortion in current wave.

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Help of Microcontroller on Voltage Control to Reduce Transformer Inrush Current

  • Fard, Ali Asghar Fathollahi
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.12-15
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    • 2014
  • At the moment of transformer energization by the supply voltage, a high current called transient inrush current, which may rise to ten times the transformer full load current, could be drawn by the primary winding. This paper discusses a microcontroller circuit with the intention of controlling and limiting the inrush current for a transformer, by the method of ramping up the supply voltage feeding to the transformer primary. Simulations and the experimental results show a significant reduction of inrush current, when the ramping up voltage is applied to the three-phase transformer load. The inrush current could be almost eliminated if the correct switching step rate is chosen.