Abstract:
a drilling or work-over vessel (10) is disclosed comprising a number of operational equipment (300), wherein the drilling or work-over vessel comprises at least one operational control and/or state unit (100) comprising at least one processing unit (102), wherein the at least one operational control and/or state unit (100) comprises or are in connection with a memory and/or storage (103), and at least one sensor unit (200), wherein the at least one sensor unit (200) is adapted to obtain one or more measured physical values and to provide data representing the one or more measured physical values and/or derived values thereof to the at least one operational control and/or state unit (100), the memory and/or storage (103) comprises a data representation of a computational physics model of at least a part of the drilling or work-over rig, and the at least one processing unit (102) is adapted to derive data representing an estimation of one or more physical states (such as defined by limits of forces, relative motion between operational equipment and vessel, or between other two pieces of operational equipment) estimated to act on at least one operational equipment (300) in response to the data representing the one or more measured physical values and/or derived values thereof as provided by the at least one sensor unit (200).
Abstract:
A stability meter comprises a translational accelerometer (1) which has a working axis along which it is sensitive to gravity. It is mounted on a vessel with the working axis horizontal when the vessel is in the upright position such that it transmits signals proportional to the sine of the angle of roll of the vessel to microprocessor based apparatus (2). The microprocessor (12) conducts a Fast Fourier Transform on a plurality of samples from the accelerometer (1) in order to determine the dominant rolling frequency. The apparatus (2) comprises a display (8), a printer (9), a keyboard (10), a clock (14) and memory unit (16). The dominant rolling frequency is used to calculate the transverse metacentric height of the vessel. The value of the transverse metacentric height is transmitted to the display (8) as a measure of the stability of the vessel.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring physical changes in a marine structure. More particularly, provided is a system for monitoring physical changes in a marine structure, comprising a complex optical measuring instrument which senses the behavior and structural changes of the marine structure using at least one optical sensor using a fiber optic Bragg grating. According to the present invention, a measurement method using an optical sensor is implemented to accurately monitor physical changes in the marine structure on a real-time basis. The present invention relates to the real-time predictive monitoring and controlling of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic environmental internal/external forces, hull stresses, motion with six degrees of freedom, and the location of a marine structure. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for providing information on fuel savings, safe operation, and maintenance by synthetically measuring changes in a marine float, such as the slope in each direction, draft, trim, corrosion, erosion, and cracks of the marine float, and the pressure, stresses, vibrations, and frequencies applied to the marine float, which are caused by aerodynamic environmental internal/external forces and predictively controlling the marine structure based on the measurement. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a method for providing information on fuel savings, safe operation, and maintenance by the real-time predictive monitoring and the predictive controlling of aerodynamic environmental internal/external forces, hull stresses, motion with six degrees of freedom, and the location of a marine structure, the method comprising: a first step of accumulating data relating to the internal/external forces affecting the marine structure, the internal/external forces being the flow of gas or fluid on the outside of the marine structure, and data relating to the reaction of the marine structure to the internal/external forces through a linear test in a water reservoir or a wind tunnel so as to generate a lookup table, and storing the lookup table in a database; a second step of measuring the internal/external forces using a time-of-flight method in an actual voyage of the marine structure and storing the measured internal/external forces in the database; a third step of comparing the internal/external force data measured in the second step and the data relating to the internal/external forces stored in the lookup table in the first step, and predicting data relating to the reaction of the marine structure; and a fourth step of controlling, on a real-time basis, the attitude or voyage path of the marine structure using the predicted data relating to the reaction of the marine structure.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for monitoring the wave formation from a vessel, particularly after high speed ferries, based on calculation of the Froude number.
Abstract:
The stability of floating structures is determined using a plurality of changes in weight distribution and by processing the resulting signals from two inclinometers arranged so as to measure the inclination about two orthogonal non-vertical axes. The inclinometer axes need not coincide with the structure axes as any divergence is compensated by the specified signal processing steps.
Abstract:
본 발명은 모형선의 종동요 관성 모멘트 및 무게중심 높이 측정 장치에 관한 것으로, 모형선을 용이하게 설치할 수 있으며 또한 모형선의 관성 모멘트 및 무게중심 높이를 정밀하게 측정할 수 있는 장치를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 상기한 목적을 달성하기 위하여 본 발명은, 종방향으로 뻗은 평판의 형상을 가지며, 중심에는 회전축이 위치하며, 상면에는 모형선이 놓여지는 모형선거치부; 종방향으로 뻗은 평판의 형상을 가지며, 상기 모형선거치부와 일정 거리만큼 이격하여 상기 모형선거치부의 아래에 위치하는 받침부; 상단은 상기 회전축과 결합하고 하단은 상기 받침부와 결합하면서 상기 모형선거치부를 받치는 한편 상기 회전축을 증심으로 한 상기 모형선거치부의 회전중심을 제공하는 회전중심부 및; 상기 모형선거치부와 상기 받침부 사이에 설치되되, 상기 모형선거치부의 종방향 양 끝단에 상기 회전축을 중심으로 대칭이 되는 위치에 설치되며, 상기 모형선거치부가 상기 회전축을 기준으로 시소 운동을 할 수 있도록 복원력을 제공하는 복원력제공부;를 포함하는, 모형선의 종동요 관성 모멘트 및 무게중심 높이 측정 장치를 제공한다.
Abstract:
본 발명은 모형시험을 수행함에 있어서 수작업으로 무게 추의 위치를 변경함이 없이 자동화된 시스템을 통하여 모형선의 흘수조건을 신속하고 정확하게 맞출 수 있도록 하는 장치를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 상기한 목적을 달성하기 위하여 본 발명은, 모형선에 설치되어 모형선의 흘수를 측정하고 측정흘수값을 무선송수신장치에 전달하는 흘수측정장치; 모형선에 설치되어 무선조절장치와 무선으로 교신하되 상기 흘수측정장치의 측정흘수값을 상기 무선조절장치에 송신하고 상기 무선조절장치로부터 무게중심변경명령을 수신하여 무게중심변경장치에 전달하는 무선송수신장치; 모형선 외부에 설치되어 상기 흘수측정장치의 측정흘수값이 미리 계산된 설정흘수값과 다를 경우 무게중심변경명령을 생성하는 무선조절장치 및; 모형선에 설치되어 상기 무선조절장치의 무게중심변경명령이 있는 경우 무게 추의 직선 왕복 이동을 통하여 모형선의 무게중심 위치를 자동으로 변경하는 무게중심변경장치;를 포함하는, 모형선 흘수 자동 조절장치를 제공한다.
Abstract:
A vessel (10) comprising a hull (11) having a hull length (L) measured on any navigable waterline (21) and a buoyant volume (∇ ). The modified slenderness ratio of the hull, L 3/4 /∇ 1/3 is greater than or equal to 2.5 where the length is measured in metres and the buoyant volume is measured in cubic metres. In one arrangement, the vessel (10) may comprise a single hull vessel. In another arrangement, the vessel (10) may comprise a multi-hulled vessel.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of testing the stability of vessels, using clinometers. The inventive method is based on: (i) an algorithm developed in order to enable the use of gravity clinometers in vessels, which discriminates the component of the signal due to the angle of heel, despite the rolling of the vessel; and (ii) a methodology consisting in considering the equilibrium states from a dynamic view point, taking account of disturbances in the heel torque, unlike the standard view point which comprises a static consideration of the process. The method is performed with a device comprising an original system for calibration of the clinometer and another system, which can be used to record changes over time in the measurement, to analyse same and to establish reliability indices. The system can also be used to determine the centre of gravity of a vessel using a novel system, independently of the stability testing.
Abstract:
A canting ballast twin foil (CBTF) sailing yacht constructed according to the invention includes a sailing hull, a ballast, a ballast-supporting structure, and an onboard ballast drive system. The ballast drive system moves the ballast in order to vary the counter-heeling force it produces underway. Twin foils that depend downwardly from the hull in positions fore and aft of the ballast provide leeway and steering control. An onboard main engine drive system provides power, either directly by suitable mechanical coupling or indirectly through charging of the battery/electric system, for one or more of a canting system, a leeway, and/or steering control system. The onboard main engine drive system may also power a yacht-propelling propeller.