{"title":"Evaluation of Survivability of a Ship After Damage with Application of a Risk Calculation Method","authors":"P. Szulczewski","doi":"10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.512a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.512a","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contains calculations of risk for a selected damage case scenario. The calculations took place with use of a risk model designed for evaluating the safety of ships and were compared with the available and published industry standard (as included in SOLAS 2009) as well. The comparison of results is presented in the form of a discussion and concludes that exact risk levels can be obtained at any stage of the vessel's life. The currently valid method as included in SOLAS 2009 regulation provides limited information about the actual survivability of a vessel in emergency conditions. It is hence very difficult to compare the current probabilistic model with risk based survivability calculations to evaluate the actual safety provided by an investigated vessel should it subsequently be severely damaged.","PeriodicalId":242508,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering Part A1 2020","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124351815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of the Dynamic Response of a Ship in Head Waves Using OpenFOAM Toolbox","authors":"J. Yao","doi":"10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.565","url":null,"abstract":"Ships and marine structures, such as oil tanker, offshore platforms, etc., usually face extreme seaway environment in real situation. If under the action of strong waves large amplitude motions will occur, with the result that they may not work as usual or even lose stability. Thus, it is of great importance to access their dynamic responses under such bad conditions at the initial design stage, so as to ensure normal usage and safety. Herein, the original RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes) solver based on OpenFOAM Toolbox has been extended to predict dynamic responses of ships and marine structures in waves. A new “inlet-velocity boundary condition” was implemented to generate waves. A damping term for wave absorption was added to the right-hand side of RANS equations in order to avoid wave reflection from the boundary where waves leave the computational domain. The related numerical methods are described in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to present a validation of the approach used. The prediction of the dynamic response of a ship in head waves was the focus. Five cases with different wave lengths and heights were considered. The predicted results, i.e. time histories of total resistance, heave and pitch, were compared with available experimental data and analysed. In addition, due to current experience it is very necessary that effort is devoted to determining appropriate grid and time step, so as to ensure the quality of waves generated.","PeriodicalId":242508,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering Part A1 2020","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115755692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Dynamic Stress Intensity Factors for Cracked Stiffened Plates Based on Extended FE Method","authors":"Y. Peng, P. Yang","doi":"10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.547","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamic stress intensity factors (DSIFs) for cracked stiffened plates considering the actual boundary conditions in ship structures are analyzed by the extended finite element method (XFEM). The sensitivity of numerical results with respect to mesh size and time step is discussed. Some other influential parameters including stiffener height, crack location and crack length are also analyzed. The numerical results show that the convergence is affected by mesh size and time step. By using XFEM, singular elements are not needed at the crack front and moderately refined meshes can achieve good accuracy. The height of the stiffener and crack location significantly effect DSIFs, while the crack length slightly influences the DSIFs.","PeriodicalId":242508,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering Part A1 2020","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124367542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Gualeni, G. Balanzoni, V. Bocola, G. A. D. Mare
{"title":"Parametric Formulation of the Floodable Length Curve: Application Case to Offshore Patrol Vessels","authors":"P. Gualeni, G. Balanzoni, V. Bocola, G. A. D. Mare","doi":"10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a1.582","url":null,"abstract":"The residual buoyancy of vessels after damage has a fundamental role in their survivability and it is implemented through adequate ship internal subdivision. Traditionally the number and the position of transverse watertight bulkheads are selected for most ships early in the design phase by means of the “floodable length curve” coupled with the concept of “margin line”. However, for naval vessels, it is more and more common during the acquisition process to explore a wide domain of feasible ships, identified with the assistance of automated processes and assessed also in terms of capabilities, among which is survivability. The generation and the comparison of a considerable number of different ship configurations is very time consuming. Therefore recourse to a parametric expression of the floodable length curve is considered to be a very efficient approach and would thus enable characterisation of the ship, in terms of survivability performance. In this paper such an approach is presented, using an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) as the case study.","PeriodicalId":242508,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering Part A1 2020","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129682262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}