scholarly journals PHYSICAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS OF ORDU-GIRESUN AIRPORT, TURKEY

Author(s):  
Sukru Emrah ARIKAN ◽  
Nurgul GULTEKIN ◽  
Alp Kucukosmanoglu ◽  
Berguzar Ozbahceci ◽  
Mehmet SAG ◽  
...  

Ordu-Giresun Airport, which has been constructed recently, being an example of the aviation sector of Turkish transportation network, is a project having marine structural aspects due to the construction at the sea by filling and in this workout physical model experiments of the project are evaluated. 3000-meters-long runway and the other superstructures of the airport, the first example of construction of such a structure by filling in the sea in Turkey, is to be protected by a breakwater of 7435 meters long. ‘First Cross Section’ has been prepared by using experimental formulas and artificial neural network and ‘Second Cross Section’, being the alternative of the first one has been planned. Yet, both cross sections have similar characteristics, they have berm heights in such a manner that ‘First Cross Section’ enables the structure to be constructed from the sea, whereas ‘Second Cross Section’ makes it possible from the land. Both cross sections are aimed to be evaluated in terms of stability, wave overtopping and economy through the hydraulic model studies performed at the Hydraulics Laboratory of Turkish Ministry of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication. Starting from design stage (computation of design wave characteristics, physical model experiment under different wave conditions on different structure alternatives) to construction stage the engineering studies is presented with comparisons and discussions.

Geophysics ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 794-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidore Zietz ◽  
Roland G. Henderson

Model experiments were made to devise a rapid method for calculating magnetic anomalies of three‐dimensional structures. The magnetic fields of the models were determined using the equipment at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oaks, Md. An irregularly shaped mass was approximated by an array of prismatic rectangular slabs of constant thickness and varying horizontal dimensions. Contoured maps are being prepared for these magnetic models at different depths and for several magnetic inclinations. The fields of these three‐dimensional structures are obtained by super‐imposing the appropriate contoured maps and adding numerically the effects at each point. The equipment and laboratory methods are described. Theoretical and practical examples are given.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 1911-1922
Author(s):  
Yang Zhan ◽  
Gang Wu

This article proposes a new closed-form equation to determine the reduction factor for global buckling of concentrically loaded pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer struts based on the Ayrton–Perry formula and observed initial out-of-straightness of pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer members measured by other researchers, which makes the original solution recommended by Eurocode 3 easy to be used to predict the global buckling loads of doubly symmetric pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer members subjected to axial compression. The influence of the geometric imperfections of pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer profiles is considered in this new closed-form equation. Validation of the solution including the parameter of the reduction factor for global buckling of pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer columns is performed by comparison with published experimental evidence. In addition, compared with the five closed-form solutions available in the literature, this solution exhibits higher accuracy in predicting the global buckling capacity of concentrically loaded pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer struts with doubly symmetric cross sections. The solution implemented into the new reduction factor equation for global buckling of pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer members can be conveniently used by structural engineers at the preliminary engineering design stage for accurately assessing the reliability and safety of composite structures under concentric compressive loading.


2015 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 567-574
Author(s):  
Kiran Gangadhar Shirlal ◽  
Ramesh Reddy Mallidi
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2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 1199-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subba Rao ◽  
Kiran G. Shirlal ◽  
Roobin V. Varghese ◽  
K.R. Govindaraja

Author(s):  
Maximilian Liebert

Abstract The motion analysis of floating offshore structures is a major design aspect which has to be considered in the early design stage. The existing design environment E4 is an open software framework, which is being developed by the Institute of Ship Design and Ship Safety, comprising various methods for design and analysis of mainly ship-type structures. In context of the development to enhance the design environment E4 for offshore applications this paper presents a method to calculate the response motions of semi-submersibles in regular waves. The linearised equations of motion are set up in frequency domain in six degrees of freedom and the seakeeping behaviour is calculated in terms of the amplitudes of the harmonic responses. The hydrodynamic forces onto the slender elements of the semi-submersible are accounted for by a Morison approach. As the drag and damping forces depend quadratically on the amplitudes, these forces are linearised by an energy-equivalence principle. The resulting response amplitude operators of the semi-submersible are validated by comparison with model tests. The method represents a fast computational tool for the analysis of the seakeeping behaviour of floating offshore structures consisting of slender elements with circular cross sections in the early design stage.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4485
Author(s):  
Sultan Alqash ◽  
Sharvari Dhote ◽  
Kamran Behdinan

In this paper, a new approach is proposed to predict the far-field noise of a landing gear (LG) based on near-field flow data obtained from multiple two-dimensional (2D) simulations. The LG consists of many bluff bodies with various shapes and sizes. The analysis begins with dividing the LG structure into multiple 2D cross-sections (C-Ss) representing different configurations. The C-Ss locations are selected based on the number of components, sizes, and geometric complexities. The 2D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for each C-S is carried out first to obtain the acoustic source data. The Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings acoustic analogy (FW-H) is then used to predict the far-field noise. To compensate for the third dimension, a source correlation length (SCL) is assumed based on a perfectly correlated flow. The overall noise of the LG is calculated as the incoherent sum of the predicted noise from all C-Ss. Flow over a circular cylinder is then studied to examine the effect of the 2D CFD results on the predicted noise. The results are in good agreement with reported experimental and numerical data. However, the Strouhal number (St) is over-predicted. The proposed approach provides a reasonable estimation of the LG far-field noise at a low computational cost. Thus, it has the potential to be used as a quick tool to predict the far-field noise from an LG during the design stage.


2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 4363-4382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Sun ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
L. Z. Wu ◽  
Ogbonnaya Igwe ◽  
Enzhen Zhu

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masjono Muchtar ◽  
Salama Manjang ◽  
Dadang A Suriamiharja ◽  
M Arsyad Thaha

To date there were few research on the effect of non-linearity properties of the ocean waves on the performance of wave energy converter (WEC), which uses a series of unidirectional gear. One such parameter is the variation of wave period. The influence of wave period variations on the performance of physical model of the wave energy converters have been investigated at the Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Hasanuddin University Indonesia. This WEC physical model was fabricated and assembled at Politeknik ATI Makassar Indonesia. The investigation steps consists of physical model development, physical model investigation at wave flume prior to the wave period  variation, measuring input output parameters of the physical model under test and empirical model formulation based on observed data analysis. Physical model test carried out on the wave flume at the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Department of Civil Hasanuddin University, at a water depth of 25 cm, wave height between 5-9 cm and wave period between 1.2 - 2.2 seconds. Investigation result based on flywheel radial speed (RPM) and torque (Nm) indicated that calculated harvested power was inversely proportional with the wave period. The longer the period of the waves, the energy produced is getting smaller. The derived empirical formula was y = -85.598x + 208.53 and R² = 0.8881. Y is energy produced (Watt) and X is the wave period (Second). Formulations generated from this study could be used as a reference for future research in dealing with wave period variations on a design one way gear wave energy converter as a source of renewable energy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Nooraiin Mohd Razali ◽  
Ismail Bakar ◽  
Adnan Zainorabidin

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