Modular Transportation Platform for Underwater Towing Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Underwater towing devices are bulky and difficult to transfer in their entirety, requiring dismantling for transportation, which reduces the efficiency of marine surveys.
Innovation Solution
A transportation platform comprising a main frame, support frame, movable base, operation decks, and main lifting lugs, designed for easy assembly and hoisting, featuring a main frame with upright posts, basal tubes, and diagonal tubes, along with a movable base with arc pads and lifting lugs, allowing for the safe and efficient transfer of underwater towing devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the underwater towing device is kept in its entirety for transportation, then the efficiency of marine survey is improved, but the device becomes bulky and difficult to transfer
Solution Approach 1:
The transportation platform is divided into modular components including a main frame, support frame, movable base, operation decks, and ladder stands. These segments can be assembled on-site to form a complete platform for transferring the underwater towing device, eliminating the need to dismantle the device itself while maintaining transferability
Solution Approach 2:
The transportation platform serves as an intermediary structure between the land and the operation region. It provides a stable platform that can be assembled at the destination, allowing the bulky towing device to be transferred without dismantling, thus improving survey efficiency while managing the transfer difficulty
2Ease of operation
If the underwater towing device is dismantled for transportation, then the ease of transfer is improved, but the efficiency of marine survey is reduced due to reassembly requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The transportation platform is designed with pre-assembled modular components that can be quickly put together at the operation region. The main frame, support frame, and other components are prepared in advance and can be assembled without dismantling the towing device, thus maintaining survey efficiency while enabling easy transfer
3Productivity
If a transportation platform is designed to hold the entire underwater towing device, then the efficiency of marine survey is improved, but the structural complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transportation platform is segmented into standardizable modules such as the main frame with upright posts and basal tubes, support frame with transverse beams and stand columns, and movable base with horizontal tubes and square legs. These standardized segments reduce design complexity while enabling the platform to accommodate the entire towing device
Solution Approach 2:
The transportation platform is designed as a multi-functional structure that can serve as a support frame, movable base, and operation platform simultaneously. The main frame with operation decks and ladder stands provides multiple functions in a single structure, reducing overall complexity while maintaining the capability to transfer the entire towing device
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AI summary
A transportation platform for an underwater towing device, including: a main frame; a support frame; a movable base; operation decks; ladder stands; and main lifting lugs. The main frame includes upright posts, basal tubes, longitudinal tubes, transverse tubes, and diagonal tubes. The support frame includes cushion blocks, transverse beams, stand columns, carrier bars, and stiffeners. The ladder stands include stand pipes and a plurality of deformed bar. The main lifting lugs are disposed on the upright posts of the main frame. The support frame is in the form of a door frame and disposed in the lower part of the main frame. The carrier bars cross over the basal tubes. The stiffeners are disposed between the upright posts of the main frame and the transverse beams. The cushion blocks are disposed on the carrier bars. The movable base is disposed between the carrier bars of the support frame.