CATAMARAN HULL-FORM DESIGN

A design procedure is developed on the concept of an "effective hull form". It consists of two parts, the first part is the design of an effective hull form for the demihull of a catamaran, the second part is the computation of the demihull geometry from its effective hull. A few catamaran design examples are presented in full, including a Conventional catamaran, and "Swath" vehicle and a high-speed container ship, "Mod-Cat".

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From the International Seminar on Wave Resistance, Tokyo, February, 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Naval Architects of Japan

  23 Shiba-kotohiracho, Minato-ku
  Tokyo 135,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Pien, P C
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Catamarans; Containerships; High speed craft; Hulls; SWATH ships; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship design
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull forms; Hull geometry
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00170692
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Ship Research Institute of Norway
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 7 1978 12:00AM