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Jianjun Huang, Guoping Chen and Ryan J. Lowe
When the fundamental natural frequency of marine structures is comparable to the dominant frequency of incident waves, the response of the load on the structure will be amplified. Accurately quantifying how wave loads can be amplified by incident wave co...
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Chun Bao Li, Mingsheng Chen and Joonmo Choung
It is essential to design a reasonable mooring line length that ensures quasi-static responses of moored floating structures are within an acceptable level, and that reduces the cost of mooring lines in the overall project. Quasi-static responses include...
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Weiyuan Zhu, Jiaqi Cheng, Yutao Pang, Hongbin An, Junpeng Zou, Jie Ren and Cheng Zhang
This study proposes a new form of underground diaphragm wall foundation with hexagonal sections, called the grid pile foundation (GPF), which is used for long-span bridges. To investigate the lateral bearing capacity characteristics of the integrated pil...
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Seong Hyun Hong, Young Jin Kim, Soo Hyung Park, Sung Nam Jung and Ki Ro Kim
The air and structural loads of a 5-ton class light helicopter (LH) rotor in a 2.24 g pull-up maneuver are investigated using a coupling between the computational structural dynamics (CSD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods. The LH rotor is c...
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Marco Menegozzo, Andrés Cecchini, Ryan Christian Ogle, Uday Kumar Vaidya, Isaac Acevedo-Figueroa and Jaine A. Torres-Hernández
Honeycomb cores are widely used in the aerospace and automotive fields as a part of protective structures. Unfortunately, standard prismatic honeycomb cores offer a limited amount of energy absorption under lateral loads and suffer from degradation of th...
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Wenming Wang, Yahui Gao, Zhen Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Zhonghai An and Sicheng Shao
Tower foundations are generally of a cast-in-place structure with the disadvantages of low industrialization level and long construction period. The development of prefabricated foundation for transmission line projects is efficient to improve the indust...
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Wenqiang Peng, Wenliang Lu, Sitian Liu, Yong Liu, Linfeng Xu and Fenglin Li
Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) has attracted much attention in China as a new and efficient construction method. However, the seismic performance of the connections between precast piers and other structures limits the application of ABC in medium...
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Wei Cai, Zhihui Zhou, Xudong Qian, Dongfeng Cao, Shuxin Li, Ling Zhu and Haixiao Hu
A reliable finite element procedure to simulate shear-dominated ductile fractures in large-scale, thin-walled steel structures is still evolving primarily due to the challenges in determining the failure criterion of metal materials under complex stress ...
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Xiufei Wang, Kun Liu, Mingcai Xu and Hewei Liu
In this study, a common cruciform structure in ship hulls was designed and experimented with in order to analyze its deformation characteristics under planar collision and quasi-static loading. The mechanical parameters of the materials were determined b...
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Stian H. Sørum, Nuno Fonseca, Michael Kent and Rui Pedro Faria
Fibre ropes offer beneficial properties for mooring of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs). However, the mooring line?s stiffness is both load-history and load-rate dependent. A quasi-static stiffness is observed for slow loading, with a higher stiff...
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Harsha Cheemakurthy, Zuheir Barsoum, Magnus Burman and Karl Garme
Lightweight ice-class vessels offer the possibility of increasing the payload capacity while making them comparable in energy consumption with non-ice-class vessels during ice-free periods. We approach the development of a lightweight hull by dividing ic...
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Lianghui Li, Shaochun Ma, Peng Bao and Hao Wang
Ceramsite concrete, with its advantages such as excellent long-term durability and thermal insulation properties, is suitable to be utilized as precast sandwich wall panels. While the lack of assessment of the seismic performance of such wall panel joint...
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Sarmad Dawood Salman Dawood and Mohammad Yazdi Harmin
Satellite systems undergo several operational phases during their service life, including the assembly phase, ground transportation phase, the launch phase, and the in-orbit operation phase. Among these phases, the one that imposes the highest level of l...
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Yunji Kim, Junho Suh, Bora Lee, Yondo Chun, Keejun Park and Yonghun Yu
This study analyzed adhesive wear in periodic sliding motion using a quasi-static deterministic wear model that considered changes in the point of contact of asperities as well as changes in the surface and statistical parameters. The contact pressure wa...
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Kun Yan, Shiyou Wu, Shengbo Ye and Guangyou Fang
In actual life-detection radar applications, a quasi-static person with weak respiration is difficult to find when relying on the echoes from a single fixed observation point. To effectively sense the weak respiration of a quasi-static person in complex ...
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Francesco Depalo, Shan Wang, Sheng Xu and C. Guedes Soares
The objective of this work is to develop an efficient method to carry out the preliminary design of the mooring system for a wave energy converter. A practical mooring design procedure is applied to a specific case of study, and it can be replicated for ...
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Roman Gozdur
The topic of this paper is modeling based on Hamiltonian spin interactions. Preliminary studies on the identification of quasi-static magnetizing field in a magnetic system were presented. The random-field Ising model was then used to simulate the simpli...
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Hyun-Gi Kim, Bum-Joon Kim and Kwang-Ho Lee
Concrete foundations have received attention as offshore wind turbine support structures because of their various advantages. However, because of the lack of information on structural analysis and the design method of complex marine environmental loads, ...
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Luca Braidotti and Francesco Mauro
The need for decision support after a flooding casualty requires the development of fast and accurate progressive flooding simulation procedures. Here, a new quasi-static technique is presented, proposing a differential algebraic formulation capable to c...
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Phan Gia Luan and Nguyen Truong Thinh
Cable-driven parallel manipulators (CDPMs) have been of great interest to researchers in recent years because they have many advantages compared to the traditional parallel robot. However, in many studies they lack the cable?s elasticity that leads to fl...
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