上海内河集装箱运输发展的问题探讨

通过对长三角地区“十一五”及“十二五”期间建设或规划建设的高等级内河航道网络的介绍,分析上海地区现今内河集装箱运输还难得一见的主要原因.结合上海内河航道建设的实际情况和内河航运的特点,提出了加快上海内河集装箱运输发展的相关建议,以供探讨.     

潍坊港沉积物特征及岸滩稳定性研究

通过潍坊港海岸动力地貌调查,分析研究了潍坊港各港区的水下沉积物分布特征。近岸沉积物质主要表现为极细砂与砂质粉砂,源于历史上黄河及附近河流的泥沙,中值粒径大致在0.01～0.4 mm,分选程度为分选好-中常。通过不同历史时期海图的等深线和断面海床冲淤变化对比,分析认为,潍坊中港区以西,受黄河口泥沙扩散、沉积影响,海床一直处于持续淤涨之中,这种趋势还将持续,潍坊中港区以东海床则基本保持稳定。从黄河口流路变迁这一角度来看,该海区岸线将在长期内保持稳定。     

长江中游太平口水道河床演变趋势与模型预测成果对比分析

分析了荆州长江大桥所在沙市河段太平口水道演变特征,并同模型试验预测的三峡水库蓄水运用后桥区河段演变趋势进行对比分析。实践表明,利用模型试验手段对该河段河床演变趋势预测是成功的,为其航道整治方案的制定和工程实施顺序提供了科学依据。     

长江宜宾—重庆航道浅滩整治措施分析

2003年以来长江宜宾—重庆段航道陆续按Ⅲ级航道标准进行了系统建设。建设过程中结合具体河势及碍航情况采取了单纯疏浚,顺坝与潜坝结合,疏浚配合丁坝、丁顺坝,疏浚、筑坝、护底配合等浅滩治理措施。结合实例对浅滩整治措施和效果进行分析。     

嘉陵江草街—北碚段航道整治效果及补水需求分析

嘉陵江草街至河口段整治工程分期实施,部分滩段整治效果未及预期,通航条件仍然较差。针对嘉陵江草街至北碚段航道枯水期斑鸠背、二郎滩等滩段出浅碍航的问题,结合深度平均的平面二维水力学数值模拟和航道通航水流条件原型观测,分析研究河段各滩险的碍航特性及整治效果,提出重点滩段达到航道维护尺度的流量要求及相应保证率。研究结果表明:嘉陵江草街至北碚段航道近年来虽进行了系统整治,航道通航水流条件得到一定的改善,但受逐年地形变化影响,航槽内冲淤变化显著,目前已不能满足Ⅲ级航道尺度要求;在现状条件下,满足Ⅲ级航道尺度要求的草街最小下泄流量约为1 391 m~3/s。     

长江中游江口水道支汊航道开发利用可行性分析

随着长江沿江可利用岸线资源的日益减少,一些复杂条件下的长江岸线急需要开发出来,这其中很大一部分需要以支汊可通航作为基础。现今倡导绿色水运、和谐水运,对长江干线支汊航道进行开发利用可行性分析不仅是为沿江经济服务,更是保护航道资源的需要。针对有强烈开发需求的江口水道,通过河床演变分析、航道条件核查、开发利用可行性分析等手段进行了航道等级与维护尺度研究,并进一步预测了支汊开通后带来的社会经济价值,具有很强的实用价值和广阔的应用前景。     

Inhomogeneous wave load effects on a long,straight and side-anchored floating pontoon bridge

In this paper, we present a numerical study on the hydroelastic response of a 4.6 km long fjord crossing floating bridge subjected to wave loads. The bridge is straight in design and supported by 35 pontoons along its full length. To limit the response to horizontal loads, four clusters of deep water mooring lines are engaged to increase the transverse stiffness of the bridge. Owing to the very large span across the fjord, inhomogeneity in the wave field exists. This study examines the various effects of inhomogeneous wave loads on the dynamic responses of the floating bridge. These include the spatial variations of the wave direction, significant wave height and peak period as well as the coherence and correlation of waves along the entire length of the floating bridge. For the purpose of comparison, the dynamic bridge responses under homogeneous wave load cases are also studied. In addition, the effects of wave load components and short-crestedness are presented and discussed.     

A multiscale material-structure-hydroelasticity coupled analytical model for floating sandwich structures with hierarchical cores

A novel material-structure-hydroelasticity coupling analytical model is proposed for marine structures, which is utilized for the calculation and optimization of a very large floating sandwich structure (VLFSS) with a hierarchical ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC) core in this study. For the coupling material and structure analysis, three-dimensional representative volume element and self-consistent methods are developed to reveal the physical relations between the UHPC core's macroscale mechanical properties (e.g., modulus and density) and mesoscale hierarchical characteristics (e.g., aggregate and porosity) and to obtain the corresponding parameterized formulas. For the coupling material-structure-hydroelasticity analysis, a sixth-order dynamical equation for the potential flow model of the VLFSS, in which the hierarchical core's parameters are introduced through the material-structure coupling formulas, is developed. The hydroelasticity equations containing multiscale parameters are solved, and the mechanical responses are calculated. Using this coupled multiscale method, the shear force in the representative VLFSS is optimized for a smaller amplitude, which relies on the interactivity of the hierarchical structural parameters and wave conditions. These results demonstrate the potential of the multiscale coupling methodology to achieve the physically significant optimization of a floating composite structure in ocean engineering.     

Integrated design optimization of spar floating wind turbines

A linearized aero-hydro-servo-elastic floating wind turbine model is presented and used to perform integrated design optimization of the platform, tower, mooring system, and blade-pitch controller for a 10 MW spar floating wind turbine. Optimal design solutions are found using gradient-based optimization with analytic derivatives, considering both fatigue and extreme response constraints, where the objective function is a weighted combination of system cost and power quality. Optimization results show that local minima exist both in the soft-stiff and stiff-stiff range for the first tower bending mode and that a stiff-stiff tower design is needed to reach a solution that satisfies the fatigue constraints. The optimized platform has a relatively small diameter in the wave zone to limit the wave loads on the structure and an hourglass shape far below the waterline. The shape increases the restoring moment and natural frequency in pitch, which leads to improved behaviour in the low-frequency range. The importance of integrated optimization is shown in the solutions for the tower and blade-pitch control system, which are clearly affected by the simultaneous design of the platform. State-of-the-art nonlinear time-domain analyses show that the linearized model is conservative in general, but reasonably accurate in capturing trends, suggesting that the presented methodology is suitable for preliminary integrated design calculations.     

Experimental field study of floater motion effects on a main bearing in a full-scale spar floating wind turbine

In this paper we present a full-scale experimental field study of the effects of floater motion on a main bearing in a 6 MW turbine on a spar-type floating substructure. Floating wind turbines are necessary to access the full offshore wind power potential, but the characteristics of their operation leave a gap with respect to the rapidly developing empirical knowledge on operation of bottom-fixed turbines. Larger wind turbines are one of the most important contributions to reducing cost of energy, but challenge established drivetrain layouts, component size envelopes and analysis methods. We have used fibre optic strain sensor arrays to measure circumferential strain in the stationary ring in a main bearing. Strain data have been analysed in the time domain and the frequency domain and compared with data on environmental loads, floating turbine motion and turbine operation. The results show that the contribution to fluctuating strain from in-plane bending strain is two orders of magnitude larger than that from membrane strain. The fluctuating in-plane bending strain is the result of cyclic differences between blade bending moments, both in and out of the rotor plane, and is driven by wind loads and turbine rotation. The fluctuating membrane strain appears to be the result of both axial load from thrust, because of the bearing and roller geometry, and radial loads on the rotating bearing ring from total out-of-plane bending moments in the three blades. The membrane strain shows a contribution from slow-varying wind forces and floating turbine pitch motion. However, as the total fluctuating strain is dominated by the intrinsic effects of blade bending moments in these turbines, the relative effect of floater motion is very small. Mostly relevant for the intrinsic membrane strain, sum and difference frequencies appear in the measured responses as the result of nonlinear system behaviour. This is an important result with respect to turbine modelling and simulation, where global structural analyses and local drivetrain analyses are frequently decoupled.