Advanced damage stability assessment for surface combatants

OCEAN ENGINEERING

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Article

Boulougouris, Evangelos¹  Winnie, Stuart¹  Papanikolaou, Apostolos² 

[1] Univ Strathclyde, Naval Architecture Ocean & Marine Engn, Glasgow G4 0LZ, Lanark, Scotland

[2] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Sch Naval Architecture & Marine Engn, Athens, Greece

关键词: Naval ships;    Damage stability;    Risk;    Probabilistic assessment;    Survivability;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.02.040

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

One of the major contributors to the survivability of a surface combatant is her reduced vulnerability to weapon effects and as such the ship's damage stability characteristics determine a ship's ability to resist the consequences of possible flooding, namely to not capsize and/or sink. There are serious concerns about the limitations of the current semi-empirical deterministic criteria in which a combatant's damage stability is assessed upon. This paper details a comparison between the current approach and a newly presented probabilistic approach with the aim of determining which will result in a more accurate way of estimating the level of survivability of a particular design. A study is also presented in which the maximum damage length used in the naval ship assessment is increased to merchant ship standards of 0.24L(bp). (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

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