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US20160332705A1
US20160332705A1 US15/111,321 US201415111321A US2016332705A1 US 20160332705 A1 US20160332705 A1 US 20160332705A1 US 201415111321 A US201415111321 A US 201415111321A US 2016332705 A1 US2016332705 A1 US 2016332705A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • B63B2035/4426—Stationary floating buildings for human use, e.g. floating dwellings or floating restaurants
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
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    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • B63B2035/4493—Floating structures supporting vegetation, such as trees, reeds, crops, plants, or the like, e.g. flexible structures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
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  • the invention refers to constructions of floating islands intended for the arrangement of various objects, in particular, civil engineering for residential, scientific, production, cultural-entertainment and recreational purposes.
  • the invention refers to oceanography and hydrology, in particular, to surface drifting and immovable floating islands, which may be used for various scientific researches, for location of supervision, research and rescue teams thereon, as sea resort or recreation facility, as well as comfortable place of human residence in the ocean etc.
  • the invention relates to the structure of floating island, formed on the basis of large-scale floating platform.
  • sea or ocean surface as basic surface for the creation of floating islands is of great importance due to lack of area on the shore to solve some projects, as well as due to the fact that sea or ocean water itself is permanent and very powerful source of energy.
  • the perspective of using water surface for the creation of structures of different area may turn out to become a development of a new trend of land exploration. Therefore famous developments of engineers and architects are in the focus, since standard design solutions are not always used in the course of designing of such projects, and in most cases these solutions are similar to constructing ships and other floating facilities.
  • One of the main issues of such islands is the island's reaction to the behavior of surface water layer as floating facility.
  • side dampers enable island's movement upward-downward and sideway, going up and down with regard to horizon of water environment and water line of the island and damp energy of wave shocks.
  • Lower stabilizers ensure stability of the island and the set working position at transverse and longitudinal moving of the island; a part of stabilizers together with a ballast act as counterweight aiming to return the island and its platform to its original position in the case of island's heel in transverse and longitudinal directions.
  • zones with minimum disturbed condition of water space during the year and almost horizontal relief under the island are selected for construction of islands (to avoid free movement of the island with regard to reference point of the drift).
  • a floating island comprising a floating platform containing different units on the upper part thereof and at least one bell with Foucault's pendulum with an electricity generator installed on inner surface of the bell on the lower part.
  • This stabilization keeps oscillatory process, but it does not repeat the oscillatory process of waves. Therefore it can be seen that the contact of two individual waste piles, each of which previously performed the displacement in accordance with wave-formation process, results in mutual damping of individual displacements with the formation of a new displacement process with new smaller amplitude. It may be treated as a new mechanism of stabilization, wherein the displacement and oscillation of an individual element contacting with another element, which is also performing displacement and oscillations, results in the formation of a new process of total displacement, but having characteristics which are lower than of initial processes. Such interaction in the case of large number of elements leads to mutual stabilization of total mass of elements due to composition of displacement vectors and summation of oscillation amplitudes.
  • the floating facilities are interconnected with docking units, ensuring the compensation of displacements in three directions.
  • they are made in the form of at least two resilient elements and a flexible connection (e.g. rope, sling etc.) having the ends fixed on one of the docking objects, and having a hinged joint with another docking object in its middle part, whereas resilient elements are located on both sides from the point of connection, i.e. hook or clamp.
  • the ends of flexible connection are spring-actuated with regard to attaching points.
  • the floating facilities are made in the form of a ship comprising a body with cargo compartments, having bottom, side and deck coverings and having a superstructure and the upper deck covering of said superstructure is extended along the whole length of the ship.
  • floating facility in fact, is a ship, provided with systems ensuring buoyancy and keeping vertical position (heel) and superstructures.
  • Such floating facilities without conversion cannot be used as a construction unit for forming a floating island, in which the superstructure surface is used as a basic surface for construction structures.
  • the invention is aimed to achieve a technical result consisting in the simplification of the island's structure and in the provision of the possibility of carrying useful load corresponding, for example, to double weight of the island itself, while providing its operational reliability and strength, durability at large size.
  • This technical result can also be formulated in another way: increasing strength and durability, as well as buoyancy and steadiness of a floating island while providing labor saving (reducing structural complexity) for its structural construction.
  • a floating island comprises a partially submerged volumetric structure made from floating facilities with positive buoyancy which are connected with each other by a flexible non-stretchable link and a resilient damping link; said floating facilities are located adjacent to each other and are spaced from each other in horizontal direction, and every facility is a volumetric shallow structure with side walls, bottom and roof used as basic surface located above water level for installation of island infrastructure objects on it, and every floating facility is made in the form of a shallow tight unit having positive buoyancy and having a form of parallelepiped or prism with a height that is less than the length of either side of the base, and each wall of each floating facility located opposite to the wall of the adjacent floating facility is connected with said wall by means of a flexible non-stretchable link and a resilient damping link along the whole length of said wall, whereas said resilient damping link is made with the possibility of damping on at least two mutually perpendicular directions.
  • the specified features are essential and interrelated forming stable combination of essential features sufficient for achieving the required technical result.
  • FIG. 1 generally view of a floating facility
  • FIG. 2 cross-section of floating facility—shallow tight unit
  • FIG. 3 shows an example of connecting floating facilities with each other to form an island on water.
  • a new structure of floating island ( FIG. 1 ) is considered, comprising a partially submerged volumetric structure having underwater and above-water parts.
  • This volumetric structure is made from a certain number of floating facilities 1 , made with positive buoyancy.
  • These floating facilities are connected with each other by means of a flexible a non-stretchable link and a resilient damping link.
  • Flexible non-stretchable link is used to connect one floating facility to another to provide free movement of both floating facilities with regard to each other. Such connection also excludes the possibility of disconnection of one floating facility from another.
  • floating island floating facilities are arranged adjacent to each other and are spaced from each other in horizontal direction.
  • Every floating facility is a construction unit, which connects such units together to form an agglomeration of above-water surfaces, which are used for the arrangement (installation) of island infrastructure objects 2 on them.
  • Every floating facility is a shallow volumetric structure with side walls 3 , bottom 4 and roof 5 used as a basic surface (deck, deck surface) and located above water level 6 .
  • Every floating facility is made in the form of a shallow tight unit, e.g. from ferro-concrete (e.g. cast reinforced concrete).
  • the inner space of said unit is divided with partition walls 7 into sections 8 , which also represent stiffening elements for reducing bending stress ( FIG. 2 ).
  • stiffening ribs may be formed.
  • On horizontal surfaces of units such ribs may be located in mutually variable directions: upper and lower rib—at some distance from each other (stiffening ribs are located at least 6 m away from each other (upper from lower)).
  • Stiffening ribs may be placed (installed) in the following order: upper rib—on upper horizontal surface and lower rib—at some distance spaced aside on lower horizontal surface.
  • Ribs may have cellular structure.
  • the assembly has positive buoyancy and a shape of parallelepiped or prism with height not less than length of either side of the base.
  • the assembly is a regular volumetric shape and it is preferable that all units, being parts of the island system, should be equal in structure (volume and dimensions) and shape. It is the most optimum option, as it ensures uniformity of oscillation processes in the system and possible forecasting of oscillations compensation algorithm between neighboring units.
  • the resilient damping connection between adjacent walls of assembles may be in the form of rubber-containing blocks 9 , laid end on and fixed on above-water horizontal surfaces of adjacent shallow tight units and along their adjacent walls.
  • Such resilient blocks can be made of rubber in the form of plates or in the form of pads and overlap the space between walls of neighboring units.
  • rubber-containing resilient units are made in the form of bridges for moving from horizontal above-water surface of one shallow tight unit to above-water surface of another unit.
  • Such resilient blocks perform two functions.
  • the first function connecting units with each other due to the fact that one edge of a rubber plate is fixed on the surface of one unit and the other edge of the rubber plate is fixed on surface of the other adjacent unit.
  • the second function due to resilient characteristics of the material it is capable of bending, stretching, compressing and twisting to damp the unit displacements caused by the influence of water mass of sea or ocean surface layer on the unit. Since the unit is partially submerged into water and has positive buoyancy, it is exposed to surface waves and subsurface flows that causes certain oscillations of the unit which repeat the algorithm of wave oscillation.
  • Such construction ensures the transfer of oscillation process in which every unit is involved (as a construction unit) to neighboring units, which are subject to similar oscillation processes.
  • a part of the process energy is damped in resilient blocks and the remaining part as an oscillation function is combined with the same function of an adjacent unit.
  • Combining two non-harmonic functions results in summing of amplitudes thereby the formation of a new oscillation process with significantly less amplitudes takes place.
  • a stabilization process is formed. Since each unit has a damping connection with four neighboring units in the central (non-peripheral) part of the island, the combination of five non-harmonic oscillation functions results in summing of amplitudes that leads to the practical stabilization of the island.
  • Large-scale floating island made from multiple inter-connected units forms an agglomeration of shallow units having a shape of regular rectangular parallelepiped with a width and length that are significantly exceed its height, with geometrical dimensions ensuring positive buoyancy of every unit and the island in general.
  • Inner cavities of shallow units comprise bunk rooms and technical rooms, provided with equipment required to keep life activity of the island.
  • Inner cavities of shallow units can comprise rooms suitable for residence or for use as scientific laboratories, production workshops, cultural or entertainment facilities and sanitary institutions.
  • the island is equipped with autonomous energy supply system for keeping life activity and moving the island in required directions over the water surface. Survival equipment of the island may comprise, in particular, a drain system ensuring the forced removal of condensation masses by means of suction pumps.
  • Autonomous energy supply system can be performed with the use of wave energy, wind energy and sun energy transformation into electricity.
  • Autonomous energy supply system can comprise, for example, a hydropneumatic equipment located between shallow units and transforming the movement of the units caused by wave movement.
  • the planned objects and structures may be located directly on surface of the island.
  • Installations of solar batteries are also provided to convert solar energy into electricity, and wind-driven towers are provided to convert energy of air mass (wind) into electricity.
  • wind and solar batteries for producing electricity and reliable maintenance of floating island autonomy is provided on the basis of standard equipment and is mutually duplicating for different weather conditions (calm sea, sea disturbance accompanied with strong winds).
  • Units connected with connection elements should be spaced from each other at a distance of 0.2-0.4 m. This distance is determined by the above-mentioned dimensions of units taking into account the maximum possible deviation of a unit exposed to arriving wave.
  • a hydraulic pneumatic equipment is installed which converts reciprocating mutual displacement of neighboring units' walls into electricity. All units are autonomous.
  • the assembly (connection) of the island is performed by connecting units by means of damping elements by putting units afloat one by one. If required, any unit, external or internal, may be disconnected and submerged. It is done as follows: connecting (fixing) elements which connect units with each other are disconnected from the unit subject to submersion.
  • a survival equipment of the island may comprise, in particular, a drain system, located in inner cavities of units providing the force removal of condensation masses by means of suction pumps.

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