PRESSURES IN A TANK DUE TO SLOSHING

In this paper, the experiments on a 1:25 scale model of a trapezoidal forward compartment, conducted to find cargo-sloshing pressures due to a ship's pitching motion, are described. Transducers were used to find the dynamic and static pressures on the tank walls and the tank top. The experiments show that large pressures occur as a result of a pitching motion of resonant period, especially at the corners and top of such a converging tank. Pressures are generally larger at the fore end, the maximum pressures occurring at slightly higher periods than the experimental natural period. /Author/

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  Benn Brothers Marine Publications Limited

  Lyon Tower, 125 High Street, Colliers Wood
  London SW19 2JN,   England 
• Authors:
  • Morris, WDM
  • ALLEN, R F
• Publication Date: 1974-2

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 215-217
• Serial:
  • Shipping World & Shipbuilder
  • Volume: 167
  • Issue Number: 3890
  • Publisher: Seven Kings Publications, Limited
  • ISSN: 0037-3931
  • Serial URL: http://www.shippingworld.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container tanks; Free surface; Sloshing; Stresses
• Old TRIS Terms: Free surface effects; Model testing; Tank stresses
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057983
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Maritime Research Center, Kings Point
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 6 1974 12:00AM