The occupants of high-speed planing boats operating in heavy seas are subject to repeated shock loads that can injure or impair performance. Identification and evaluation of shock mitigation concepts requires development of a nonlinear, time-domain, wave-to-wave elastic planing boat/human dynamic simulation. Shock mitigation concepts include the use of various stiffening and damping materials in the cockpit or within the hull structure. This report summarizes a general method for characterizing stiffening and damping materials and devices for use in a time-domain planing boat simulation, and derives the equations for the stiffening characteristics of several materials and devices.
Characterization of Stiffening and Damping Materials for Planing Boat Shock Mitigation
1996
30 pages
Report
No indication
English
Marine Engineering , Ship motion , Shock mitigation , Stress strain relations , Computerized simulation , Load distribution , Stress analysis , Shock waves , Modulus of elasticity , Stiffening , Damping , Impact shock , Nonlinear systems , Bow shock , Boats , Time domain , Ship hulls , Ship decks , Foam , Air springs