The Bend Stiffener (BSR) manufactured from polyurethane is generally used at the connection between nonbonded pipes and water surface platform. It is necessary to predict curvature distribution of BSR. This paper proposed a curvature prediction model that took into account the stress-strain nonlinearity of BSR and bending hysteresis of nonbonded pipes. Then, a nonlinear regression method was used to identify the Prony parameters which could be used to describe the stress relaxation behavior of BSR materials. Then the stress relaxation model was substituted into the curvature prediction model, so that the effect of BSR’s stress relaxation could be taken into considernation. Finally, an optimization criteria was proposed for BSR and conducts parameter analysis on regular shaped BSR.

An umbilical cable serves as a crucial link between the water surface and subsea units in offshore engineering. In this paper, a model test method for the lateral buckling of an umbilical cable armor layer under bending and compression was proposed, and the model was constrained by a sheath to induce lateral buckling. Model tests were carried out under the conditions of straight and bending radii of 2 m, 1.7 m, and 1.4 m. The accuracy of the proposed model test method was verified by the comparison between the theoretical values and experimental results in previous literature, and comparing with the numerical simulation results of this paper. The experimental study revealed that the critical displacement and critical buckling load for lateral buckling of the umbilical cable armor layer increased as the bending radius decreased, and the location of lateral buckling moved toward the fixed end with decreasing bending radius. For the umbilical cable in a bent and compressed state, lateral buckling of the armor wires with the initial winding position on the concave surface of the bend was more pronounced. The lateral buckling model test method proposed in this paper can be used to study the failure mechanism and mode of the umbilical cable armor layer under lateral buckling and to validate numerical simulation analysis.

Submerged waterjet propulsion is a variant of conventional waterjet propulsion, whose inlet duct is fully integrated into the bottom plate of hull, reulting in a more complex coupled flow field behind. In order to meet the development requirements of submerged waterjet propulsion, the differences in mechanical control system between two types of waterjet propulsion were studied. Numerical simulations were conducted for both conventional and submerged waterjet propulsion at designed speed point. The comparison results show that submerged waterjet propulsion has larger flow obtaining area, higher inlet duct efficiency and less impact on the ship motion while the thrust reduction fraction is larger.

Liquid sloshing load is one of the key loads for the structural design of tank in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrying vehicle. When the sloshing load is too large, it will lead to local damage of the tank structure, which will cause liquid leakage and even the overturning of LNG vehicle. In this paper, based on the previous numerical results, two kinds of wall structures, i.e. trapezoid and square, were proposed. Liquid sloshing in tanks with different wall structures was experimentally studied. For the free-surface evolution and the distribution characteristics of impact load, with the help of statistical analysis, the effectiveness of wall structures in suppressing liquid sloshing was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The results show that the presence of wall structures has changed the flow field. And instead of direct impact by water, an indirect impact by gas-containing liguid occurs. During the sloshing and impact of air-containing liquid, a large number of air-liquid mixtures and bubbles are generated, effectively reducing the impact load. Furthermore, the square wall structure is better than the trapezoidal wall structure for suppressing impact load.

Based on the principle of "attribute subdivision and knowledge encapsulation", the application process research of virtual test of ship resistance performance based on RANS equation by encapsulating virtual test expert knowledge was carried out, The application process of virtual test of ship resistance performance was established and compared to the physical pool model test process. Precise prediction of resistance performance can be carried out by only inputting the geometric surface and the main scale parameters of test object, which has the characteristics of high prediction accuracy and good effect. Compared with the traditional CFD resistance numerical calculation, the evaluation efficiency of ship resistance performance is greatly improved, the research cycle of ship performance is shortened, and the barrier to entry is significantly lowered .

The fracture failure of ship structures often results from the combination of low cycle fatigue and cumulative plasticity. In order to study the low cycle fatigue crack growth and plastic zone size of a marine high-strength steel considering cumulative plasticity, the low cycle fatigue crack growth test of a marine high-strength steel CT specimen under tension-tension-cyclic load was conducted according to ASTM E647 standard, and the plastic zone size of crack tip under different crack lengths was measured by DIC method. By introducing Chaboche model, an extended finite element simulation method was established to obtain the plastic zone size at the crack tip for exploring the influence of different load factors on the plastic zone size. Then the effectiveness of the method was verified based on test data. Finally, based on the results of finite element calculation and Irwin model, a prediction model of plastic zone size at crack tip considering cumulative plastic strain was proposed, and a crack growth rate model based on plastic zone size was established.

To cope with the difficulties of fault warning in current engineering practice, such as the challenges of constructing sensitive feature combinations, scarcity of complete fault samples, and inaccurate warning threshold settings, etc., a rolling bearing fault warning method based on Adversarial Autoencoder (AAE) and adaptive threshold was proposed. Firstly, the preprocessed normal sample spectrum data was utilized as AAE training data for autoencoder network and adversarial network training, and the autoencoder reconstruction error was calculated and the coding network was retained; Then, the low-dimensional features obeying the prior distribution was extracted layer by layer using the encoder, and the health indicator was constructed by combining the reconstruction error and similarity measure, and the probability density distribution of the health indicator was fitted based on the beta distribution to determine the threshold adaptively; Finally, the test data was processed by the same steps and compared with the threshold to discriminate abnormalities. The proposed method was verified by using two types of rolling bearing datasets, and the experimental results show that the proposed method has excellent fault warning performance and adaptability, and can realize early warning of weak fault.

In order to investigate the impact of the blowing rate and sequence of the main ballast water tank on the emergency surfacing characteristics of submarines, Suboff was taken as the research object. Based on RANS equation and overall dynamic grid technology, a simplified high-pressure air blowing model of the main ballast water tank was combined to construct a simulated calculation model for the emergency surfacing motion of submarines. By linearly applying buoyancy, the submarine emergency surfacing motion parameters varying with time were obtained under different blowing rates, blowing sequences, and time intervals at an initial speed of 1m/s. The results show that the faster the blowing rate of the main ballast water tank is, the faster the hull water flows out, the smaller the amplitude of the pitch angle is, and the larger the amplitude of the roll angle is. Blowing out the water tank in the order of the bow, middle, and stern groups, as well as the middle, bow, and stern groups, results in a larger longitudinal angle amplitude and faster upward buoyancy compared to simultaneous blowing out. Blowing out the water tank in the order of the bow, middle, and stern groups, results in faster water output compared to that in the order of the middle, bow, and stern groups. Under the same blowing sequence, the longer the time interval, the greater the amplitude of pitch angle and the surfacing time with an interval of 1.0 s is earlier than the other two working conditions. In all operating conditions, the highest point of surfacing occurred at 7.08 s in the condition of blowing out the water tank in the order of the bow, middle, and stern groups with a time interval of 1.0 s, which is 1.21 earlier than simultaneous blowing. The research results have certain guiding significance for the pressure design of high-pressure gas in submarines and the blowing strategy for emergency surfacing of real submarine.

The sediment particles mixed in the lubricant of water-lubricated bearing will make the working environment of the bearing worse and reduce the lubrication performance of the bearing. In order to study the elastohydrodynamic lubrication performance of water-lubricated bearings under the condition of lubrication water containing impurities, the multigrid method was used to analyze the effects of different spindle speed variation forms, impurity particle sizes and shapes on the maximum pressure and minimum film thickness of water film. The results were then compared with that in the pure water lubrication condition. It is shown that sine acceleration and cosine deceleration are the most favorable for the lubrication performance of the bearing among the three speed change conditions of the spindle. The existence of impurity particles will increase the maximum pressure of lubricating water film and decrease the minimum film thickness. The larger the size of the impurity particles, the closer the shape is to the circle, the lower the thickness of the lubricating water film formed, and the greater the pressure. The existence of impurity particles will cause the sudden change of pressure, and bubbles will escape from the water film and form cavitation.

A double-buoy floating breakwater and an oscillating buoy wave energy power converter were coupled into an integrated device. Based on the CFD technology, a numerical water tank was established to calculate and explore the energy capture efficiency and wave-dissipating performance of the integrated device. The results show that the floater motion in the cavity has strong nonlinearity. When the incident wave period is near the natural period of the cavity, the floater has the best energy capture efficiency, and the power generation and energy absorption efficiency can reach 2.4 times that of a single floater. In addition, the wave-dissipating performance of the integrated device is related to the wave steepness and the natural period of the structure. When the incident period is less than the natural period of the structure, the floating breakwater has a better wave dissipating effect on large steep waves; beyond the natural period, the floating breakwater will lose its excellent wave dissipation ability.