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M.L. Kaminski
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6 records found
Mid- and High-Cycle Fatigue of Welded Joints in Steel Marine Structures
Effective Notch Stress and Total Stress Concept Evaluations
The characteristic far field response spectrum of welded joints – the governing fatigue sensitive locations in steel marine structures – is predominantly linear elastic, meaning mid- and high-cycle fatigue (MCF and HCF) is most important for design. Using the effective notch stre
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Mode-III fatigue of welded joints in steel maritime structures
Weld notch shear stress distributions and effective notch stress based resistance
The predominant mode-I response of maritime structures can be multiaxial, involving out-of-plane mode-III shear components. Semi-analytical mode-III notch stress distribution formulations have been established for critical details like welded T-joints and cruciform joints, reflec
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Mode-{I, III} multiaxial fatigue of welded joints in steel maritime structures
Effective notch stress based resistance incorporating strength and mechanism contributions
The response of maritime structures can be multiaxial, involving predominant mode-I and non-negligible mode-III components. Adopting a stress distribution formulation based effective notch stress as fatigue strength parameter for mixed mode-{I, III} multiaxial fatigue assessment
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Fatigue is a governing design limit state for marine structures. Welded joints are important in that respect. The weld notch stress (intensity) distributions contain essential information and formulations have been established to obtain a total stress fatigue damage criterion and
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Multiaxial fatigue assessment of welded joints in marine structures
Literature overview of progress in academia and engineering practice
Structural geometry and stochastic loads such as swell and wind seas can typically induce multiaxial stress states in welded details of marine structures. It is known that such complex time varying stress states determine the fatigue resistance of welded steel joints. Therefore,
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In the present study, feasibility of implementing an acoustic emission (AE) system for condition monitoring of highly-loaded and low-speed roller bearings has been quantitatively investigated. To evaluate the transmission of damage-induced AE signals inside the bearing and their
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Analysis and design of side-by side mooring arrangements for LNG transfer
Frequency and Time domain Hydrodynamics
The aim of this study is to conclude which parameters are influencing the most the hydrodynamic interaction between the two moored vessels in side-by-side configuration using frequency and time domain simulations. Furthermore to show what is the added value of the hydrodynamic in
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Fatigue Damage Sensor
Improving fatigue lifetime predictions of aluminium high speed craft
Monitoring fatigue damage is complex because ships are designed to crack after 20 years, and typically cracks will only occur after a long time. A novel fatigue damage sensor has been invented to indicate damage in corresponding aluminium welded joints. Fatigue damage is accelera
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Fatigue assessment of trailing suction hopper dredgers
A study on the contribution of the dredging cycle to the fatigue damage in the bottom door openings
Since the 19th century hopper dredgers have been used for civil operations such as land reclamation and water way maintenance. In the past 25 years a trend of scale enlargement of hopper dredgers driven by economic and productivity reasons is seen. Scaling of the designs has effe
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An application of numerical Fluid-Structure Interaction
On a local wave impacting a membrane LNG tank
Natural gas accounts for just under a quarter of global energy demand. The gas is mainly delivered through pipelines, but is increasingly shipped overseas by liquefying it to LNG at -162 degrees Celcius. Fluids, containing free surfaces inside ships are likely to start sloshing,
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Fatigue of Welded Joints in Steel Marine Structures
Resistance of Double Sided Longitudinal Attachments and Single Sided Butt Joints ~ Design and Testing Considerations
Fatigue failure is a governing limit state for marine structures. Marine structures are composed of the numerous structural members connected by the welded joints which are the typically governing fatigue sensitive locations. In this thesis, attention has been paid to fatigue of
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Investigating the Behaviour of Acoustic Emission Waves Near Cracks
Using the Finite Element Method
During fatigue crack growth of metallic structures, acoustic stress waves are introduced into the material. These acoustic emission waves are the result of the sudden stress release during the nucleation of the crack surface. Using dedicated acoustic emission monitoring equipment
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Effect of stochastic material properties on the structural response of laminated composite materials
Following the building block approach
This report, which from now and onwards will be called the main body of the thesis, covers the core of the
problem that has to be solved. Generally, the aim of this thesis is to investigate a laminated composite’s
structural response, made of FRP, when its material properties are
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Probabilistic Lifetime Predictions Using Total Stress Concept, Remote Monitoring and Global Wave Forecast Models
Fatigue Analysis of Damen’s FCS5009 Vessels
At Damen’s Research and Development department, continuous improvements are made to existing design practices using recent technological developments and fatigue design is currently on the anvil. High speed craft operating around the globe are subject to millions of load cycles (
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Confused sea-state induced fatigue
Joint swell and wind seas induced multiaxial stresses: the influence of confused sea-state induced multiaxial stress-states on fatigue damage of a USCG cutter.
Marine structures are mostly exposed to mild and moderate sea-states, where the structural response is elastic. Characteristics of environmental loading are highly stochastic in nature, resulting in stress-states that might be multiaxial. This thesis attempts to identify the sour
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Influence of Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Response on the Fatigue Damage of a FOWT
Development of Method to Assess Hydrodynamic Nonlinear Response of a FOWT, Having Allowance for Platform-Turbine Coupling Effects and Combined Wind and Wave Loads.
A method has been developed with which the rigid-body motions, stress and fatigue damage response of a TLP-type FOWT are determined in time domain, with the aim of assessing the influence of non-linear hydrodynamic response on the fatigue damage. The dynamics are described by mea
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Modelling Wrinkling Behaviour of Large Floating Thin Offshore Structures
An application of Isogeometric Structural Analysis for Post-Buckling Analyses
With increasing attention to climate change,renewable energy generation has become a major topic for research anddevelopment. Wind and solar energy are generated on land, whereas wave, windand tidal energy generators are getting attention in the offshore domain. Anovel extension
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Stress-state dependent fracture prediction
An application in numerical analysis of maritime collision
In the past decades the understanding of fracture of ductile material has increased substantially. Research has shown that the onset of fracture highly depends on the full state of stress inside the material. Better understanding of fracture resulted in more advanced and complex
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On self magnetic flux leakage in support of fatigue crack monitoring in ship and offshore structures
A numerical, experimental, and full-scale application study
Ship and offshore structures are prone to fatigue damage as they are cyclically
loaded by waves. Therefore, regular inspection is needed in order to confirm adequate structural integrity throughout the entire service life of the structure. Detected fatigue cracks that are too lon
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