Pitting corrosion is typical corrosion observed on coated hold frames of bulk carriers which exclusively carry coal and iron ore. In order to secure the safety of these types of bulk carriers, it is important to understand the effect of pitting corrosion on local strength of hold frames.
In order to investigate this effect, a series of 4- and 3-point bend tests on structural models which consist of web, shell and face plates has been carried out. Artificial pitting was created on the web plate to simulate pitting. In the 4-point bend tests, two equal concentrated loads have been applied vertically at the one-third points of simply supported models so that compression load due to bending would act on the face plate. In this testing condition, lateral-distortional buckling occurred before reaching the ultimate strength and local buckling of the face plate was observed after reaching the ultimate strength. The effect of web plate pitting on the lateral-distortional buckling strength was found to be small but the ultimate strength decreases with increase in the degree of pitting intensity. In the 3-point bend tests, concentrated load has been applied vertically at the center of simply supported models so that compression load due to bending would act on the face plate. In this testing condition, local face buckling occurred just after reaching the ultimate strength. The ultimate strength is found to be decreasing with increase in the degree of pitting intensity.
A series of non-linear FE analyses has been performed to simulate the deformation behavior observed in the tests. It has been revealed that even in the case of randomly distributed pitting corrosion the ultimate strength of the structural models was almost the same as that of the structural models with uniform corrosion corresponding to the average thickness loss. 相似文献
A new type of contrarotating propeller (CRP) system has been developed through the cooperative research work of five shipbuilding companies in Japan (Hitachi Zosen Corporation; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.; Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; NKK Corporation; and Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.). This paper describes a design system for an optimum CRP, which is one of the numerous outcomes of this work. The optimum design system is composed of three theoretical programs: (1) the design program of the optimum CRP; (2) the steady lifting surface program of the CRP; (3) the unsteady lifting surface program of the CRP. These theoretical programs will be discussed in the first part of the paper, and the design system supported by these theoretical programs will then be verified by comparing calculated and experimental results.Translation of an article that appeared in the Journal of The Society of Naval Architects of Japan, vol. 180 (1996): The original article won the SNAJ prize, which is awarded annually to the best papers selected from the SNAJ Journal, JMST, or other quality journals in the field of naval architecture and ocean engineering. 相似文献
Corrosion pits with a circular cone shape are typically observed on coated hold frames of aged bulk carriers which carry exclusively
coal and iron ore. In order to ensure the safety of these types of bulk carrier, it is necessary to understand the effect
of pitting corrosion on the local strength of hold frames. In order to investigate this effect, a series of nonlinear finite-element
(FE) analyses has been performed with pitted plates subjected to in-plane compressive loads and bending moments. It has been
shown that the ultimate compression load or bending moment of pitted plates is smaller than that of uniformly corroded plates
in terms of average thickness loss, and that predictions of the ultimate strength using the average thickness loss at the
minimum cross section would be conservative. In order to establish a method of evaluating strength reduction due to pitting
corrosion, it is important to identify the failure mode that would be most detrimentally affected by pitting corrosion. It
was found that the reduction of the ultimate compressive load or bending moment due to pitting corrosion is smaller than that
of the tensile strength in terms of equivalent thickness. 相似文献
The bursting phenomenon of tip vortex cavitation of a propeller sometimes causes severe high-frequency vibration, but its
mechanism has not yet been elucidated. In this study, we carried out model experiments by changing the propellers, wake distributions,
thrust coefficients, and cavitation numbers parametrically, examined the bursting phenomenon with a high-speed video camera,
and measured the pressure fluctuations caused by the phenomenon. We also measured flow distribution around the tip vortex.
As a result, we found that in the bursting phenomenon, large pressure fluctuations occurred twice, and that they strongly
depended on the wake distribution. Two means were suggested to suppress the bursting phenomenon, other than changing the wake
distribution: stabilizing tip vortex cavitation or reducing the cavity volume.
Numerical fluid simulations around a propeller in noncavitating, unsteady conditions were also conducted, and the strength
of the tip vortex along the circumference and its derivative were examined. As a result, the phenomena were parameterized
by the time derivative of the strength of the tip vortex, and if it was higher than a threshold value, the tip vortex cavitation
burst. Therefore, it is possible to predict the occurrence of the bursting phenomenon by numerical analysis.
Received: November 6, 2001 / Accepted: January 24, 2002 相似文献
A new method for designing propeller blade sections is presented. A vortex lattice method is used to evaluate the performance and the time-dependent pressure distribution on the blade surface in a non-uniform flow, while efficient optimization algorithms are used to modify the blade sections. Two different designs were carried out in this study. The first was a design to realize a target pressure distribution in a rotating three-dimensional flow. A two-dimensional wing theory was used to obtain the target pressure distribution. The predicted increase in efficiency and the reduction in the cavity volume were confirmed by model experiments. The second was a design to maximize the propeller efficiency. By this method, the propeller efficiency was improved by 1.2% under the constrains of constant thrust and a prescribed margin for face cavitation. 相似文献