Final Year Project: Hydrodynamics Load on ROV during Recovery

Just to follow up the video I had just made. It is about the time I spent in the lab for the whole week last week. To conclude that, I would said it was an incredible time! And I don’t think it will happen very often in my life, and I also don’t think many people have this experience. Well, I said that because I heard from the lab technicians, only about 5 students in my year who have experiments testing as part of their project. It is about 70-80 students in my years in marine technology department, so I am lucky to be one of the 6% students. =)

To start talking about my project, is best to start with the KTP project which is Knowledge Transfer Project. It is a UK government funded project for knowledge transfer between university and industry which aim to improve the business from the knowledge based fundamental theory which provide from the university. In the other hand, though this project, the university can have deeper understanding on what the industry need and what are the technical problems facing currently, and hopefully improve existing method, come out with a more time and cost effective solution.

So, my project is collaborate with SMD Ltd. which is a ROV (remote operated vehicle) manufacturing company based in Newcastle.  Welcome to visit SMD official website: https://smd.co.uk/

I had contributed to meetings with SMD Ltd. and understand the problems involved in ROV operations and engineering analysis. It is an honor to be part of this project. Thank you so much to SMD Ltd and Newcastle University for this opportunity.

PS: Saw a FPSO and a small barge outside SMD office.

My final year project is title with Hydrodynamics Load on ROV during Recovery. Basically, it is to have deeper understanding on the ROV behavior during launch and recovery, including its motion and the hydrodynamic load. We have a Q-Trencher 1400 Model in the lab which have a scale of 1:12.

As part of my project, I designed a launch and recovery test system in the Newcastle University towing tank. I used about 4 weeks’ time to communicate with the lab technicians and my supervisor to find a winch motor which capable to give the ROV lift in two different constant speed. I also provided simple experiment set up drawings using AutoCAD to help the lab technicians. Finally, we conducted the tests in 16^th March – 20^th March. I am very happy because the results we got were expected.

Alongside with the experiment testings, I also recorded and made a short video to summarize the work we did in a week in the lab. I was working for this video until 2.30am on Thursday night. That is because in case of any missing/failure screen, I will still have the opportunity to recapture the screen on Friday. Even thought it was a busy and tired week, but it worth me doing that anyway. I got many positive feedbacks from the lab technicians, from my supervisor, from my friends and family. And finally I am very happy to see everyone happy. =)

I believe this video will benefit to my university and also to SMD Ltd., not just the engineering knowledge but also the marketing part.

The video is in private right now. If you are interested, leave a comment below, I will add you to my circles, its preemptive version right now yo! Thank you for reading, feel free to comment on the video, much appreciated to have your feedback. =)

Review on existing YouTube application in Offshore/Marine Industry

It been a month since I started my YouTube channel. Thank you so much for people watching my videos and supporting me. I think it been going very well and probably better than what I expected. I hope my channel can continue growing and more and more people watching and sharing thought. 

I know I been missing out update on OrcaFlex tutorial video, that is because I was busy on my final year project. I was in my university towing tank the whole week last week. I did made a video of that and I will blog about that later on. But, today I really want to tell you more about YouTube. 

So, alongside with my busy university life, I also did study on social networking websites especially on YouTube and Linkedin. And, I am going to attend a few more training course in April. I really think they are very good platforms to communicated with people around the world since our industry (offshore industry) is an international business. Another point is, they are the most effective way to create your own brand, doesn't matter it about your personal brand or as an organisation. 

Here is the examples: 

1. Subsea 7 Official YouTube channel

2. Kongsberg Group YouTube channel

They are my favorite YouTube's channel in our industry! 

(PS: Kongsberg Group's YouTube channel should get their own custom YouTube URL, so the channel will have priority on any search engine)

To conclude that, I think social networking websites in the offshore industry/engineering business is a big knowledge, just that many people couldn't see the importance of it. Once you understand on it, the benefit is unbelievable.I wish I can somehow spread this new concept to more people in the industry and made change of it, as little as I can. 

Recently, I just completed a YouTube Creator Academy programme which is about how to engage your audience. It supposed to be a 2 weeks progamme but I only used a night and a morning to complete it. 

This programme actually caught my attentions while I was browsing on YouTube. You can imaging the power of YouTube give access to people open their mind. I am just a simple student who have passion in offshore industry but now I really want to contribute to the marketing aspect in our industry.

It is a free programme open to everyone, all you need to do is register. It consists of 4 lessons which covered,

1. Engage on YouTube

2. See what captives viewers

3. Engage beyond YouTube

4. Learn about your subscribers

Link to YouTube Creator Academy: Engage your audience boot camp.

I found the articles very useful however it also have short videos from other successful YouTuber to help you out. Once you finished all sections, try to answer the course quiz, if you have 75% or above correct, you will get a letter of completion from YouTube Creator Academy, like I do. 

I hope you enjoy reading. Any opinion about applying YouTube in the offshore industry are very welcome, please comment below. Direct Link to Clandia Sim's YouTube channel, remember to subscribe my channel for more videos! =)

Thank you so much for reading. =)

OrcaFlex Tutorial: Introduction Part 2

Please check out my new OrcaFlex tutotial video on YouTube. It is a full version of introducing the menu bar.

If you have better recording software which is free, please let me know. Your suggestion is so much appreciated.

I will definitely improve my video solution in the summer when I am back to Malaysia. Stay tune =)

Thank you very much.

OrcaFlex Presentation In Class

Thank you so much to Dr Yang who gave me this opportunity to present about OrcaFlex in the class. It means a lot to me. For me, this is not just a chance to practice my presentation skill but also a chance for me to contribute to the class. I am so happy that I could get involved in enrich this module (MAR3041 Offshore Engineering) content. And, from having idea, to request, to the presentation day, the whole process only a week time, it was very challenging in term of timing. 2015 really my year!

This is what I think Newcastle University good at. The staffs in Newcastle University really happy to see and help students to develop their own interests. I been studied in Newcastle University for 3 years and never had issues to stop my development, including I started this blog and YouTube channel a few weeks ago.

I think, you noticed my presentation slides' style was quite different from other engineer, that is because I am trying to find simplest way on presenting and this what I came out with.

With some luck, I found out this website while I surfing in the 'Slideshare'.

HaikuDeck claimed that presentation should be "Keep it simple, beautiful and fun!".

Link as below:

https://www.haikudeck.com/

I hope you find some fun too. =)

Well, HaikuDeck idea was good but it does not allow you fully control since it is just very simple app. So, I used the design in HaikuDeck, but I do it in PowerPoint.

It very simple to do.

1. Change the background to solid color.

2. Insert shape, select text box.

3. Change the text box outline and the fill color, or maybe you also want to change transparency.

4. Then you have a slide which look very likely to HaikuDeck.

5. The front I used is: Berlin Sans FB Demi.

Other cute front that I usually used is: Jokerman.

I used a lot editing technique in this presentation too. I downloaded Photoshop CS6 for free at the link below: http://tiny.cc/photo-editor

For more information, please check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS8_ZJHMRjQ 

For the license code, I just answered a survey and got the sponsor. So you can do the same as well.

About removing the background, I just used the magic erase/ erase background function in Photoshop to do so.

If you have anything want to know about the slides but I didn't mention it in here, feel free to comment below. And I will answer them. 

Thank you very much for reading. =)

My third YouTube video! Please remember to subscribe my YouTube channel for more and more videos.

RINA Conference: Structural Loads & Fatigue on Floating Structures, 25 Feb 2015, London

Thank you so much for RINA provided this great opportunity to connect professionals in the industry and share everyone thought and update news. And I also would like to say thank you so much for BMT Defense Services who sponsor me to attend this conference. I am highly appreciated this opportunity.

I am very happy to share the summary of this conference with you all.

This conference content of six presentations which concludes recent development in load and fatigue analysis on floating structure.

1.  Fatigue Strength Analysis for Detailed FE Models in Jack-Up Vessels

------ Global Maritime Group, UK/Norway

2. Effect of Internal Fluid Dynamics on Fatigue on FPSO

------ DNV GL, Norway

3. Wave Spectral Characterization for Fatigue Calculation

------ Fugro GEOS Ltd, UK

4. Extreme Wave Loads on Semi-Sub Platform Columns

------ MARINTEK, Norway

------ Statoil ASA, Norway

5. Novel Mooring Design Options for High Intensity Typhoon Conditions

------ University of Exeter, UK

------ South China Sea Intitute of Oceanology (SCSIO), China

------ National Ocean Technology Centre (NOTC), China

6. From tanker to FPSO: A structural analysis challenge

------- International Contract Engineering (ICE), Romania

For more information and paper requests, you can contact RINA by email publications@rina.org.uk.

Here is the summary on what I had learn from this conference:

Classification society:

For offshore vessel design are lack of validation but would it be a possibility to compare with bulk carrier/ oil tanker while doing analysis? Because Bulk carrier and oil tanker are present for a history, many data available.

SESAM:

SESAM can model internal fluid. How to do is… Model as rigid body but input a restoring matrix. They are behave like an external fluid as well. In SESAM, sloshing can be capture but linearly.

Usually internal dynamics motion is much smaller than the external dynamics motion, therefore not the primary problem. And you want the solution as fast as possible.

MARINTEK:

I highly recommend this paper for people who are interested in extreme wave loads analysis. This paper pointed out that numerical model are always underestimated the loads in extreme condition and therefore led to mooring failure. This paper also suggested a method to improve numerical model by using SIMO and RIFLEX.

The reason of underestimated the loads was determined as not taking account of viscous effect. By using an extra slender element in SIMO, the prediction in surge motion had improved but not in the heave and pitch motion.

Further investigations are required since the problem is complicated and involves many different hydrodynamics phenomenon which is also nonlinear relationship.

In my option, this is a very interesting subject in our industry!

University of Exeter:

They also have a very interesting research going on specifically in novel mooring design, e.g. synthetic line which included study in material property and its effect on fatigue load.  They also have very good testing facility which impress me. A YouTube video is available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n79qeLjBj2k

More information can be find in University of Exeter website.

This is the summary I did for the conferences. Thank you again for the people who supporting me to this conference. I enjoyed so much. =)

I apologize if any information is wrong. Please contact me if that is the case and I will do edition for that.

Thank you very much for reading. Feel free to comment, your opinion is highly appreciated.

Have a nice day! =)

This is the picture taken on that day.

MY FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO: OrcaFlex Tutorial - Introduction Part 1

Thank you so much for watching my very first video on YouTube. I will be very happy if you really enjoy this video and find it useful.

This idea came to my mind two weeks ago. It was actually very hard to start it since I don't have any experience on recording before. However, YouTube really helped me a lots.

I found very useful tutorial videos on YouTube to find out how to start recording.

1. From #mylifeaseva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qblZ9xJceMQ&list=TL-yLgh3e4O1DAG5H6359iDcnN8O-E32X0

2. From #laurdiy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVq1r_Zwdc4&list=LLJD7cX8QCEW9ey3QHJY97QQ&index=7

Obviously, this is not something we can learn from university or school. But it is a skill which can be apply in the engineering life.

If you enjoy this video, please let me know by comment on my YouTube channel. That will be the best motivation to me. Be honest, I have very bad memory, and it was very difficult for me to memorize the script. As you know in the video, I did Pause for almost every 1 minute. That is because I actually used 1 hours for record that 1 minute recording.

And, even after I done all the recording, I was also facing problem on editing. I was wanting to insert a picture in the video. But at the end, I didn't choose to do that because the video quality was destroyed by doing that.

Finally, yes! I have my very first YouTube video. And that is about OrcaFlex Tutorial. I hope I will be able to do more tutorial video consistently. However, I really can't promise due to heavy coursework along side. But, I will try my best!

Thank you so much for your support!