A container ship suffered serious structural damages caused in her fore body by slamming on a heavy sea in the North Pacific Ocean in January, 1978. She was in the fully laden condition on a voyage to Kobe from Oakland, California, U.S.A. A long brittle crack propagated in the fore and aft direction in the shell plating of the flare part on the starboard side. The inner structures, such as longitudinals, web frames and side stringers, on the side shell of the same side were collapsed, and the deck and shell plating on the port side was buckled.
Furthermore, the coaming of Nos. 1 and 2 hatches was distorted seriously. In the present paper, the damages are investigated from the viewpoint of ship hydroelasticity with the aid of fracture mechanics. The results obtained suggest the importance of ship handling as well as structural design for preventing damages in large container ships.
Structural damage analysis of a fast ship due to bow flare slamming
International Shipbuilding Progress ; 32 , 369 ; 124-136
1985-05-01
13 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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