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Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2022 (closed)

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Prof. Dongyan Shi, Harbin Engineering University, China.
Prof. Jianan Xu, Harbin Engineering University, China.
Prof. Jinghua Li, Harbin Engineering University, China.

Summary

Advanced material, structure and equipment are widely in ocean Engineering and ship, which involve a great variety of disciplines, such as design and analysis of material, manufacture, automatic control, intelligence, monitoring and operation and maintenance. The computer modeling for solids, fluids or algorithm is the key problem for above technologies. New computational approaches, and more efficient algorithms, which eventually make near-real-time computations possible, are the base for ocean engineering structure and mechanical equipment.

 

Recognizing the growing importance of and interest in computer modeling in ocean engineering structure and mechanical equipment, we will devote a special issue to innovative research papers in advanced computational approaches and more efficient algorithms. Meanwhile, we especially welcome submissions of review articles which describe the current state of the art.

 

We invite researchers and practicing engineers to contribute original research articles. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• High performance materials and high sea state mechanics for ship and marine engineering

• Structure, safety, and reliability of ships and marine machinery and equipment

• Ship and marine structure, machinery and equipment design

• Design and installation of offshore renewable energy machinery and equipment

• Ship and marine engineering machinery and equipment testing technology

• Underwater production system machinery and equipment

• Ship and offshore equipment intelligent manufacturing

• New type of ship and deep sea marine platform

• Marine riser and pipeline structure

• Marine big data platform construction and application

• Artificial intelligence of ship and marine engineering machinery

• Tensegrity structure and Tensegrity mechanism

• Ship and marine engineering machinery and equipment intelligent monitoring and operation and maintenance

• Automatic control system for machinery and equipment

• Shipping and marine equipment testing technology and automatic equipment

• Ship and marine machinery and equipment fault diagnosis

• Fuzzy control and fuzzy system

• Intelligent management and decision making

• Machine manufacturing system

• Mechatronics and Robotics

• Network control and neural control

• Transport control theory and methods

• Ship and marine engineering automation equipment

• Other Related Research



Keywords

Matematerial; advanced manufacture; marine structure; intelligence equipment; fault diagnosis; automatic control

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    A Smooth Bidirectional Evolutionary Structural Optimization of Vibrational Structures for Natural Frequency and Dynamic Compliance

    Xiaoyan Teng, Qiang Li, Xudong Jiang
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.3, pp. 2479-2496, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.023110
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract A smooth bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (SBESO), as a bidirectional version of SESO is proposed to solve the topological optimization of vibrating continuum structures for natural frequencies and dynamic compliance under the transient load. A weighted function is introduced to regulate the mass and stiffness matrix of an element, which has the inefficient element gradually removed from the design domain as if it were undergoing damage. Aiming at maximizing the natural frequency of a structure, the frequency optimization formulation is proposed using the SBESO technique. The effects of various weight functions including constant, linear and sine functions on structural optimization… More >

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    A Modified Bi-Directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization Procedure with Variable Evolutionary Volume Ratio Applied to Multi-Objective Topology Optimization Problem

    Xudong Jiang, Jiaqi Ma, Xiaoyan Teng
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 511-526, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022785
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Natural frequency and dynamic stiffness under transient loading are two key performances for structural design related to automotive, aviation and construction industries. This article aims to tackle the multi-objective topological optimization problem considering dynamic stiffness and natural frequency using modified version of bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO). The conventional BESO is provided with constant evolutionary volume ratio (EVR), whereas low EVR greatly retards the optimization process and high EVR improperly removes the efficient elements. To address the issue, the modified BESO with variable EVR is introduced. To compromise the natural frequency and the dynamic stiffness, a weighting scheme of sensitivity… More >

  • Open Access

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    Investigation on the Folding Mode and Deployment Process of an Inflatable Boarding Platform for the Marine Emergency Evacuation System

    Chongyang Nie, Fankai Kong, Huaqiu Ding, Hongli Pan
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 483-510, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021083
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract The different folding and storage forms of an inflatable boarding platform will have a direct impact on the deployment effect of the marine emergency evacuation system. This paper proposes different folding and storage methods for an inflatable boarding platform in a marine emergency evacuation system. According to the difference between the fold line and the fold direction, the numerical models of a boarding platform with partial fold, “Z” type fold and inner spiral fold are established. The platform models with three folding modes are simulated by numerical simulation. According to the numerical results of the inflation process, the displacement changes… More >

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    Investigation on the Folding Mode and Deployment Process of an Inflatable Boarding Platform for the Marine Emergency Evacuation System

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Influence of Vertical Load on Lateral-Loaded Monopiles by Numerical Simulation

    Qiang Li, Pan Chen, Lihong Gao, Dan Meng, Jinjie Zou
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 465-481, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020300
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Monopiles are the most common foundation form of offshore wind turbines, which bear the vertical load, lateral load and bending moment. It remains uncertain whether the applied vertical load increases the lateral deflection of the pile. This paper investigated the influence of vertical load on the behaviour of monopiles installed in the sand under combined load using three-dimensional numerical methods. The commercial software PLAXIS was used for simulations in this paper. Monopiles were modelled as a structure incorporating linear elastic material behaviour and soil was modelled using the Hardening-Soil (HS) constitutive model. The monopiles under vertical load, lateral load and… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    System Reliability Analysis for Truss Structures Based on Automatic Updated  Model

    Pengyu Chen, Cunbao Zhao, He Yao, Junliang Li
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2057-2071, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022394
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Multiple failure modes tend to be identified in the reliability analysis of a redundant truss structure. This identification process involves updating the model for identifying the next potential failure members. Herein we intend to update the finite element model automatically in the identification process of failure modes and further perform the system reliability analysis efficiently. This study presents a framework that is implemented through the joint simulation of MATLAB and APDL and consists of three parts: reliability index of a single member, identification of dominant failure modes, and system-level reliability analysis for system reliability analysis of truss structures. Firstly, RSM… More >

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    System Reliability Analysis for Truss Structures Based on Automatic Updated  Model

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Research on Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Optimization Based on Segmented AGV

    Qinhui Liu, Nengjian Wang, Jiang Li, Tongtong Ma, Fapeng Li, Zhijie Gao
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2073-2091, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021433
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract As a typical transportation tool in the intelligent manufacturing system, Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) plays an indispensable role in the automatic production process of the workshop. Therefore, integrating AGV resources into production scheduling has become a research hotspot. For the scheduling problem of the flexible job shop adopting segmented AGV, a dual-resource scheduling optimization mathematical model of machine tools and AGVs is established by minimizing the maximum completion time as the objective function, and an improved genetic algorithm is designed to solve the problem in this study. The algorithm designs a two-layer coding method based on process coding and machine… More >

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    Research on Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Optimization Based on Segmented AGV

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Vibration and Sound Radiation of Cylindrical Shell Covered with a Skin Made of Micro Floating Raft Arrays Excited by Turbulence

    Dan Zhao, Qiong Wu, Minyao Gan, Ke Li, Wenhong Ma, Qun Wu, Liqiang Dong, Shaogang Liu
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2041-2055, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021026
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract To reduce the vibration and sound radiation of underwater cylindrical shells, a skin composed of micro floating raft arrays and a compliant wall is proposed in this paper. A vibroacoustic coupling model of a finite cylindrical shell covered with this skin for the case of turbulence excitation is established based on the shell theories of Donnell. The model is solved with the modal superposition method to investigate the effects of the structural parameters of micro floating raft elements on the performance of reducing vibration and sound radiation of the cylindrical shell of this skin. The results indicate that increasing the… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Free Vibration Analysis of Rectangular Plate with Cutouts under Elastic Boundary Conditions in Independent Coordinate Coupling Method

    Qiuhong Li, Wenhao Huang, Joey Sanchez, Ping Wang, Qiang Ding, Jiufa Wang
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 2093-2121, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021340
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Based on Kirchhoff plate theory and the Rayleigh-Ritz method, the model for free vibration of rectangular plate with rectangular cutouts under arbitrary elastic boundary conditions is established by using the improved Fourier series in combination with the independent coordinate coupling method (ICCM). The effect of the cutout is taken into account by subtracting the energies of the cutouts from the total energies of the whole plate. The vibration displacement function of the hole domain is based on the coordinate system of the hole domain in this method. From the continuity condition of the vibration displacement function at the cutout, the… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Multi-Objective Redundancy Optimization of Continuous-Point Robot Milling Path in Shipbuilding

    Jianjun Yao, Chen Qian, Yikun Zhang, Geyang Yu
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 1283-1303, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021328
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract The 6-DOF manipulator provides a new option for traditional shipbuilding for its advantages of vast working space, low power consumption, and excellent flexibility. However, the rotation of the end effector along the tool axis is functionally redundant when using a robotic arm for five-axis machining. In the process of ship construction, the performance of the parts’ protective coating needs to be machined to meet the Performance Standard of Protective Coatings (PSPC). The arbitrary redundancy configuration in path planning will result in drastic fluctuations in the robot joint angle, greatly reducing machining quality and efficiency. There have been some studies on… More >

  • Open Access

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    Optimization of Multi-Execution Modes and Multi-Resource-Constrained Offshore Equipment Project Scheduling Based on a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm

    Qi Zhou, Jinghua Li, Ruipu Dong, Qinghua Zhou, Boxin Yang
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.2, pp. 1263-1281, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020744
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Offshore engineering construction projects are large and complex, having the characteristics of multiple execution modes and multiple resource constraints. Their complex internal scheduling processes can be regarded as resourceconstrained project scheduling problems (RCPSPs). To solve RCPSP problems in offshore engineering construction more rapidly, a hybrid genetic algorithm was established. To solve the defects of genetic algorithms, which easily fall into the local optimal solution, a local search operation was added to a genetic algorithm to defend the offspring after crossover/mutation. Then, an elitist strategy and adaptive operators were adopted to protect the generated optimal solutions, reduce the computation time and… More >

  • Open Access

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    Research on Welding Quality Traceability Model of Offshore Platform Block Construction Process

    Jinghua Li, Wenhao Yin, Boxin Yang, Qinghua Zhou
    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 699-730, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020811
    (This article belongs to this Special Issue: Computer Modeling in Ocean Engineering Structure and Mechanical Equipment)
    Abstract Quality traceability plays an essential role in assembling and welding offshore platform blocks. The improvement of the welding quality traceability system is conducive to improving the durability of the offshore platform and the process level of the offshore industry. Currently, quality management remains in the era of primary information, and there is a lack of effective tracking and recording of welding quality data. When welding defects are encountered, it is difficult to rapidly and accurately determine the root cause of the problem from various complexities and scattered quality data. In this paper, a composite welding quality traceability model for offshore… More >

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