Showing papers in "Marine Structures in 2007"

TL;DR: In this paper, wave spectrum parameters related to transport, distribution and variability of wave energy in the sea are explained. But, the authors do not consider the effect of wave interference on the performance of wave-energy converters.

TL;DR: In this paper, Tuned liquid dampers (TLD) have been proposed to control the dynamic response of structures, and the feasibility to control earthquake response of jacket platform is studied and applied to CB32A oil tank platform.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-variable regression method is applied to derive new formulae to predict the ultimate strength of unstiffened plates with localized corrosion, and the results indicate that the length, breadth and depth of pit corrosion have weakening effects on the final strength of the plates while plate slenderness has only marginal effect on strength reduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with grounding and stranding of ships by considering the influence of size and shape of the sea floor during grounding, and show that large hull bending moments are formed, which may influence the resistance to penetration and damage modes significantly.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple, robust and high-precision method for shell-solid coupling has been demonstrated, achieved by a fictitious shell plane perpendicular to the original shell plane.

TL;DR: In this article, a structural analysis of patch-loaded, laser-welded web-core sandwich plates is presented, which includes the effect of the rotation stiffness of the T-joint between the face and web plate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied finite element analysis to the prediction of the non-linear elasto-plastic collapse of ring-stiffened cylinders under hydrostatic loading.

TL;DR: In this paper, a double-diamond pattern was proposed to reduce the resistance of laterally loaded rectangular plates, which could reduce the bending phase and agree better with the results from nonlinear finite element analysis in plastic bending phase compared to the conventional roof top model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study on the vertical bending moment and pressures between different levels of modeling of nonlinearities based on a 3D time-domain solution scheme is presented for a large tanker hull and the S175 container hull.

TL;DR: In this paper, a first-order reliability analysis is carried out with respect to ultimate collapse bending moment of the midship cross section of a new generation oil tanker and of a conventional “rule” designed oil tanker.

TL;DR: In this paper, a load time history for wave-in-deck loading on jacket platforms in the North Sea is presented, where a simple expression to calculate a reference load (maximum load) to quantify the time history is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the wave-induced responses and the vibration reduction of an elastic floating plate using the Wiener-Hopf technique, without regard to the case of elastic connector, the calculated results obtained by the present method are in good agreement with those from the literature and the experiment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a typical behavior of double-skin structures is qualitatively studied on the basis of nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis of a wide box-like beam.