Manouchehr Fadavi Ardestani

Department of Marine Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran

[ 1 ] - Control System Design for a Surface Effect Ship by Linear-Quadratic Regulator Method

In this paper, the main goal is to reduce the heave motion between a surface effect ship (SES) and a wind turbine in order to safely transfer equipment and person to SES. For this purpose, an LQR control system is designed to damp the vertical motion of the surface effect ship in critical sea states including high-frequency and high amplitude regular waves as well as high frequency irregular wa...

[ 2 ] - A numerical investigation into the crack effects on the natural frequencies of the plates

In the current study, the effect of such parameters as the length, position and angle of crack on free vibrations of a cracked plate was examined by finite element method. The assumed crack was internal and through and its growth was ignored. In the proposed finite element model, crack was considered as a discontinuity on the plate surface and the results were compared with the results of other...