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Options for Nonindigenous Species Control and Their Economic Impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway: A Survey
(Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), 2003-01-01)
Nonindigenous species (NIS) cause substantial economic and ecological problems in the United States and other countries with marine trade. Current legislation and regulations require mandatory ballast water exchange for ...
An Improved Formulation for Bulk Cargo Ship Scheduling with a Single Loading Port
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2001-10-01)
This paper presents an improved, significantly more efficient formulation of an existing model for bulk cargo or semi-bulk cargo ship scheduling problems with a single loading port. The original model, published by Ronen ...
Aftertreatment control and adaptation for automotive lean burn engines with HEGO sensors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-03)
Control of aftertreatment systems for lean burn technology engines represents a big challenge, due to the lack of on-board emission measurements and the sensitivity of the hardware components to ageing and sulphur poisoning. ...
Time-varying Ultimate Strength of Aging Tanker Deck Plate Considering Corrosion Effect
(Elsevier, 2008-10)
This paper presents a semi-probabilistic approach to assess the time-varying ultimate strength of aging tanker's deck plate considering corrosion wastage. The procedure includes (1) defining the limit state function of ...
Computations of Highly Nonlinear Free_Surface Flows, with Applications to Arbitrary and Complex Hull Forms
(University of Michigan, 2000-10-01)
Computations of highly nonlinear free-surface flows, such as around arbitrary and complex hull forms, are performed using a desingularized boundary integral method which had been previously limited to simple, mathematical ...
Visually Augmented Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(IEEE, 2008-04)
As autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are becoming routinely used in an exploratory context for ocean science, the goal of visually augmented navigation (VAN) is to improve the near-seafloor navigation precision of such ...
An Overview of AUV Algorithms Research and Testbed at the University of Michigan
(IEEE, 2008-10-13)
This paper provides a general overview of the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) research projects being pursued within the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL) at the University of Michigan. Founded in 2007, PeRL's ...
Prediction of steel plate deformation due to triangle heating using the inherent strain method
(Springer-Verlag; JASNAOE, 2005-12)
In a shipyard, line heating and triangle heating are two major processes carried out by skilled workers to form curved plates in various shapes under various heating conditions. There have been many studies on line heating, ...