To assure competitive edge at worldwide market for high added-value ships such as cruise vessel requiring comfortable onboard environment for crews and passengers, advanced low-vibration and high-quality ship design technology is necessary. However, t...
To assure competitive edge at worldwide market for high added-value ships such as cruise vessel requiring comfortable onboard environment for crews and passengers, advanced low-vibration and high-quality ship design technology is necessary. However, the traditional design method by forced vibration analysis of ship may require trial and error design and analysis if severe ship vibration is expected. This is because the method only gives vibratory response and one can not obtain information on what sources induce the vibration and which structures are weak.
On the other hand, structural intensity analysis, which calculates vibratory power from vibratory velocity and internal force of structures, can give information on source power, dominant transmission path and sinks of vibration energy. Hence, the analysis method is useful for identifying the cause of severe vibration and preparing effective countermeasures. However, it is difficult to find structural intensity analysis technology and its application for low vibration ship design.
In this study, we aim to develop structure intensity analysis and its application technology including its visualization system to apply for low vibration ship structure design. For the purpose, we present structural intensity analysis and visualization method using both a general purpose finite element analysis program MSC/Nastran for general 3-dimensional thin walled structures. The presented methods are qualitatively validated by the examination of vibratory energy flow through structural intensity analysis for bare plate, thickness-varying plate, plate with damper, plate with the excitation of in-plane pressure. Finally, we carried out structural intensity analysis of 70,500 DWT crude oil tanker and investigate the structural intensity path of the ship.