DAMAGE STABILITY MODEL EXPERIMENTS

The paper describes a series of experiments in waves with a flooded model of a typical passenger and vehicle ferry. The objective was to provide designers and approving authorities with data with which to assess ship safety in damaged conditions in a quantifiable manner relative to sea conditions. Safety in this context is not absolute, depending upon compliance with a regulation, but a continuous function related to environmental conditions. /Author/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Institution of Naval Architects

  10 Upper Belgrave Street
  ,   United States 
• Authors:
  • Bird, H
  • Browne, R P
• Publication Date: 1974-4

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 69-91
• Serial:
  • Naval Architect
  • Issue Number: 2
  • ISSN: 0306-0209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ferries; Marine transit; Mechanical stability; Ship motion; Ships; Stability analysis; Structural models
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship models
• Old TRIS Terms: Damage stability; Model testing; Ship stability
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Marine Transportation; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097523
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Maritime Research Center, Kings Point
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 24 2003 12:00AM