A class society's view on rationally based ship structural design

摘要: The paper describes a class society's view on rationally based ship structural design. Where ships were designed earlier solely the basis of prescriptive rules from classification societies, introduction finite-element method advanced rational analysis and design methods, giving designer greater scope, capability efficiency. However, thorough knowledge is required together with practical experience in A 13,000 TEU containership taken as typical example for present day conducted by society. core this three-dimensional overall model whole ship. Software packages efficiently generate long-term hydrodynamic loads. Usually, these tools are wave approach, finding most relevant load combinations to dimension ship's structure, whereby hull girder sectional forces moments match ...