Ship hull plate processing surface fairing with constraints based on B-spline

The problem of ship hull plate processing surface fairing with constraints based on B-spline is solved in this paper. The algorithm for B-spline curve fairing with constraints is one of the most common methods in plane curve fairing. The algorithm can be applied to global and local curve fairing. It can constrain the perturbation range of the control points and the shape variation of the curve, and get a better fairing result in plane curves. In this paper, a new fairing algorithm with constraints for curves and surfaces in space is presented. Then this method is applied to the experiments of ship hull plate processing surface. Finally numerical results are obtained to show the efficiency of this method.

A Simple Empirical Formula for Predicting the Ultimate Strength of Ship Plates with Elastically Restrained Edges in Axial Compression

An investigation is conducted on the static ultimate limit state assessment of ship hull plates with elastically restrained edges subjected to axial compression.Both material and geometric non-linearities were considered in finite element(FE)analysis.The initial geometric imperfection of the plate was considered,while the residual stress introduced by welding was not considered.The ultimate strength of simply supported ship hull plates compared well with the existing empirical formula to validate the correctness of the applied boundary conditions,initial imperfection and mesh size.The extensive FE calculations on the ultimate strength of ship hull plates with elastically restrained edges are presented.Then a new simple empirical formula for plate ultimate strength is developed,which includes the effect of the rotational restraint stiffness,rotational restraint stiffness,and aspect ratios.By applying the new formula and FE method to ship hull plates in real ships,a good coincidence of the results between these two methods is obtained,which indicates that the new formula can accurately predict the ultimate strength of ship hull plates with elastically restrained edges.

Flow stress and constitutive relations of ship plate steel continuous casting slab with solidification end reduction process

In order to describe the thermal–mechanical behavior of the ship plate steel continuous casting slab during solidification end heavy reduction(HR)process accurately,its constitutive behavior was investigated by a single-pass thermal compression experiment.According to the deformation features of wide thick continuous casting slab with HR,the simulation temperature ranged from 1173 to 1573 K with strain rates of 0.0001,0.001,0.01 and 0.1 s^(-1).Three different constitutive models,the modified Johnson–Cook(JC)model,the modified Zerilli–Armstrong(ZA)model and the Arrhenius model,were established according to the obtained true stress–strain curves.The average relative error of the modified JC model,the modified ZA model and the Arrhenius model are 10.82%,9.96%and 6.21%,respectively.Considering the obvious softening effect of the flow curve at a low strain rate,the secondary softening factor under the interaction of low strain rate and the temperature was introduced in the original Arrhenius model.Compared to the Arrhenius model,the modified Arrhenius model error decreased from 6.21%to 4.73%.