Wakes from Large High-Speed Ferries in Confined Coastal Waters: Management Approaches with Examples from New Zealand and Denmark

Large high-speed craft carrying passengers and vehicles produce wake waves that are different from both conventional vessels and smaller fast vessels. Wakes from these high-speed craft can cause environmental problems (such as beach change, ecological disturbance, and damage to structures and archaeological sites) and safety problems (for navigation and for users of the beach and nearshore) in confined waters. As a consequence of the higher speed, the vessel wakes also have a longer period than wakes caused by conventional ships and may lead to substantial wave action in shallow water environments. In both New Zealand and Denmark, issues relating to high-speed craft wakes were not addressed until after the vessels had begun operation, and complex coastal management issues with possibly broader application have had to be addressed. Emerging management strategies have involved regulation using speed and wave height criteria.     

基于R-Lay的硬质管线铺管船发展

R-Lay（Reel-Lay,卷管铺设）是深水、超深水硬质管线铺设主要铺设方式之一,本文对R-Lay发展历程及发展现状进行分析,现役R-Lay铺管船10余艘,集中在Technip、Subsea 7、McDerMott、Emas AMC、HMC等少数海洋工程公司;并结合R-Lay铺设存在不足及R-Lay铺管船发展现状,探讨了未来R-Lay铺管船的发展趋势,为我国R-Lay铺管船发展提供一定的参考。     

深水半潜式钻井平台总体强度分析及冰载荷下结构评估

本文主要概述了某深水半潜式钻井平台的特点,按照DNV的相关规范,采用了有限元法和设计波法,建立了总体有限元模型,分析了在风暴自存工况下的总体屈服强度和屈曲强度,并进行了冰载荷作用下的结构评估。可得到结论,总体屈服强度和屈曲强度是满足的。本文可以为以后同类平台的总体强度分析提供借鉴。     

海上风电安装技术及装备发展现状分析

我国海上风能资源丰富,发展潜力巨大。文章总结分析了海上风电安装特点及存在问题;探讨了国内外现有风电安装船(或平台)类型、主要机具、关键结构及技术;并进一步提出了海上风电安装技术及设备发展趋势,为我国海上风电安装技术和装备发展提供借鉴和建议。     

Product substitution and dual sourcing under random supply failures

Product substitution can mitigate supply chain disruptions. However, it may not be very effective without multiple sourcing. In this paper, we consider a supply chain with two downward substitutable products. The products can be ordered from an unreliable supplier or a reliable but more expensive supplier. It is found that in an optimal sourcing policy the higher-grade product should be preferred over the lower-grade product. A sufficient condition is given for an optimal policy where only the higher-grade product is dual-sourced. The effect of substitution is contrasted with the non-substitution case. Numerical study shows the impact of demand variability and correlation on the effect of product substitution and the corresponding optimal sourcing policy.     

Biofuel refinery location and supply chain planning under traffic congestion

This research focuses on planning biofuel refinery locations where the total system cost for refinery investment, feedstock and product transportation and public travel is minimized. Shipment routing of both feedstock and product in the biofuel supply chain and the resulting traffic congestion impact are incorporated into the model to decide optimal locations of biofuel refineries. A Lagrangian relaxation based heuristic algorithm is introduced to obtain near-optimum feasible solutions efficiently. To further improve optimality, a branch-and-bound framework (with linear programming relaxation and Lagrangian relaxation bounding procedures) is developed. Numerical experiments with several testing examples demonstrate that the proposed algorithms solve the problem effectively. An empirical Illinois case study and a series of sensitivity analyses are conducted to show the effects of highway congestion on refinery location design and total system costs.     

Quantifying the benefit of responsive pricing and travel information in the stochastic congestion pricing problem

This paper is concerned with roadway pricing amidst the uncertainty which characterizes long-term transportation planning. Uncertainty is considered both on the supply-side (e.g., the effect of incidents on habitual route choice behavior) and on the demand-side (e.g., due to prediction errors in demand forecasting). The framework developed in this paper also allows the benefits of real-time travel information to be compared directly against the benefits of responsive pricing, allowing planning agencies to identify the value of these policy options or contract terms in publicly-operated toll roads. Specifically, six scenarios reflect different combinations of policy options, and correspond to different solution methods for optimal tolls. Demonstrations are provided on both the Sioux falls and Anaheim networks. Results indicate that providing information to drivers implemented alongside responsive tolling may reduce expected total system travel time by over 9%, though more than 8% of the improvement is due to providing information, with the remaining 1% improvement gained from responsive tolling.     

大型巡航救助船快速性研究

结合大型巡航救助船的功能需求和主尺度特点,对其快速性能进行分析。运用计算流体力学(CFD)技术对原型方案的线型进行阻力性能计算,依据计算信息,分别对首轮廓线形状、球首、呆木以及支架进行优化,得到最终方案,阻力相比原型方案有了大幅降低。将最终方案进行模型试验,模型试验结果与CFD计算吻合良好,证明了本船所采用的优化方法是可靠可用的。     

A simplified method for reliability- and integrity-based design of engineering systems and its application to offshore mooring systems

This paper presents a simplified method for the reliability- and the integrity-based optimal design of engineering systems and its application to offshore mooring systems. The design of structural systems is transitioning from the conventional methods, which are based on factors of safety, to more advanced methods, which require calculation of the failure probability of the designed system for each project. Using factors of safety to account for the uncertainties in the capacity (strength) or demands can lead to systems with different reliabilities. This is because the number and arrangement of components in each system and the correlation of their responses could be different, which could affect the system reliability. The generic factors of safety that are specified at the component level do not account for such differences. Still, using factors of safety, as a measure of system safety, is preferred by many engineers because of the simplicity in their application. The aim of this paper is to provide a simplified method for design of engineering systems that directly involves the system annual failure probability as a measure of system safety, concerning system strength limit state. In this method, using results of conventional deterministic analysis, the optimality factors for an integrity-based optimal design are used instead of generic safety factors to assure the system safety. The optimality factors, which estimate the necessary change in average component capacities, are computed especially for each component and a target system annual probability of system failure using regression models that estimate the effect of short and long term extreme events on structural response. Because in practice, it is convenient to use the return period as a measure to quantify the likelihood of extreme events, the regression model in this paper is a relationship between the component demands and the annual probability density function corresponding to every return period. This method accounts for the uncertainties in the environmental loads and structural capacities, and identifies the target mean capacity of each component for maximizing its integrity and meeting the reliability requirement. In addition, because various failure modes in a structural system can lead to different consequences (including damage costs), a method is introduced to compute optimality factors for designated failure modes. By calculating the probability of system failure, this method can be used for risk-based decision-making that considers the failure costs and consequences. The proposed method can also be used on existing structures to identify the riskiest components as part of inspection and improvement planning. The proposed method is discussed and illustrated considering offshore mooring systems. However, the method is general and applicable also to other engineering systems. In the case study of this paper, the method is first used to quantify the reliability of a mooring system, then this design is revised to meet the DNV recommended annual probability of failure and for maximizing system integrity as well as for a designated failure mode in which the anchor chains are the first components to fail in the system.     

Ansys Workbench辅助设计海洋承压舱

依据外压容器设计方案和准则,研究工作在海洋3000米下环境的承压舱结构,合理选择舱体材料、优化结构设计方案,分析计算承压舱各部分参数,通过常规设计时引用计算机辅助设计软件Ansys Workbench,对承压舱体各部分承压性能进行模型仿真分析计算,选取最佳结构设计方案。对设计承压舱进行打压测试,分析结果验证设计方案的有效性,满足设计工作水深的承压性能及重量要求。