The fatigue behaviour of longitudinal stiffeners of oil tankers and container ships, subjected to dynamic loads, is analysed. The following dynamic load components are considered: hull girder vertical wave bending moment, alone and combined with the horizontal wave bending moment, hydrodynamic pressure and inertial forces caused by cargo acceleration.
The spectral method was selected to calculate the fatigue damage, based on S—N curves and Miner's rule. Following this approach, the fatigue damage may be calculated as a function of a stress parameter Ωp, which represents the cumulative effect of wave induced loads in the unit of time and incorporates the combined effects of stress level and its occurring frequency.
Simple formulas for Ωp of oil tankers and container ships are given, obtained from the results of hydrodynamic analyses performed on several ships, in different wave environments.
Several examples show the applicability of the methods to real ship structures. The method, however, still needs to be calibrated because of the simplifying hypotheses introduced in the loading conditions. 相似文献
In this paper, we describe a system that locates and tracks the eyes of a driver. The purpose of such a system is to perform detection of driver fatigue. By mounting a small camera inside the car, we can monitor the face of the driver and look for eye movements which indicate that the driver is no longer in condition to drive. In such a case, a warning signal should be issued. This paper describes how to find and track the eyes. We also describe a method that can determine if the eyes are open or closed. The primary criterion for this system is that it must be highly non-intrusive. The system must also operate regardless of the texture and the color of the face. It must also be able to handle changing conditions such as changes in light, shadows, reflections, etc. Initial experimental results are very promising even when the driver moves his/her head in a way such that the camera does not have a frontal view of the driver’s face. 相似文献
Many accidents are caused by fatigue in welded built-up steel structures, and so it is important to estimate the fatigue lives
of such structures quantitatively for safety reasons. By assuming that fatigue cracks cannot grow without an accumulation
of alternating tensile/compressional plastic strain, one of the authors identified an improved effective stress intensity
factor range ΔKRPG based on the re-tensile plastic zone generating (RPG) load, which represents the driving force for fatigue cracks, and suggested
that ΔKRPG should be used as the parameter to describe fatigue crack growth behavior. The “FLARP” numerical simulation code in which
ΔKRPG is implemented as the fatigue crack growth parameter, was developed in order to predict fatigue crack initiation and propagation
behavior. In this paper, it is demonstrated that FLARP gives accurate estimates for fatigue life by comparing the estimated
fatigue crack growth curves and S–N curves with the experimental results for in-plane gusset welded joints, which are used in many welded steel structures. Moreover,
the effect of induced bending moment due to the linear misalignment in the out of plane direction on the fatigue strength
of in-plane gusset welded joints is investigated through numerical simulations. 相似文献