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Haddara, M.R. and Guedes Soares, C. (1999), “Wind Loads on Marine Structures", Marine Structures, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 199-209

A review of the available methods for the calculation of wind loads on ships and offshore structures is presented. Based on the review, four methods were selected and implemented in order to carry out a comparative study on wind loads on ships. Namely, the ahead force, the side force and the yawing moment were calculated and compared. A large tanker both in the loaded and ballast conditions was analysed using the four methods. In the second part, an expression for the estimation of wind loads on ships is proposed and compared with experimental data. A neural network technique was used to obtain this expression.

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