HULL SKIN FRICTION AND PROSPECTS OF CONTROL

With steep rises in oil costs, and the need to obtain maximum performance and mileage on a limited budget, monitoring of ship performance and measurement of performance-controlling parameters have received more attention. The Paper concludes that adequate means are available to measure accurately both hull roughness and its effects on the perfomance of ships, and torsion meters should be fitted on all ships. The other basic parameter is the "standard speed", which requires a measured speed to be corrected to standard values of power, displacement and weather.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the Conference held April 5-9, 1976 in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Corporate Authors:

  Inter-Naval Corrosion Conference (Fifth)

  Auckland,   New Zealand 
• Authors:
  • Sussex, A G
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fuel conservation; Hulls; Performance; Roughness; Ship operations; Skin friction
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull roughness; Ship performance
• Subject Areas: Energy; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159968
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Ship Research Association
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM