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Comparative investigation on ultimate strength of hull girder with laser-welded web-core sandwich deck

Journal

OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 264, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.112483

Keywords

Ultimate strength; Hull girder; Laser weld; Rotation stiffness; Combined loads

Funding

  1. NSFC [51979163, 51809167, 51809168]
  2. Chinese Government Key Research Project KSHIP-II Project [201335]

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This paper numerically investigates the ultimate strength characteristics of a hull girder with a laser-welded web-core sandwich upper deck. The results demonstrate that the stiffness and ultimate strength of the hull girder can be improved by using the laser-welded sandwich deck. Moreover, the ultimate strength interaction relationships for the hull girder under combined moments are established.
This paper numerically studies the ultimate strength characteristics of the hull girder with the upper deck made of the laser-welded web-core sandwich plates subjected to the vertical bending, the horizontal bending, the torsion and the combined loads among them. The hull girder with the upper sandwich deck is designed from the typical midship section of a light cargo ship as the prototype on the basis of equal cross-sectional area. Compared with the prototype hull girder, the advantages of the hull girder with the upper sandwich deck in the ultimate strength are fully demonstrated in this paper. The results show that by using the laser-welded web-core sandwich deck, the stiffness of the hull girder under sagging has been improved. The sagging ultimate strength of the hull girder can be increased by 15%, and the horizontal bending ultimate strength can be increased by 6.2%. The finite laser weld rotation stiffness has no significant effect on the ultimate strength of the hull girder with the upper sandwich deck. Based on the numerical results, the ultimate strength interaction relationships for the hull girders under the combined two or three moments are established with high accuracy.

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