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Rajendran, S., Fonseca, N. and Guedes Soares, C. (2014), “Analysis of vertical bending moment on an ultra large containership induced by extreme head seas”, Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2014), San Francisco, CA, USA, 8-13 June, Paper: OMAE2014-24062
This paper discusses the numerical analysis of an ultra large containership model in severe head seas. A body nonlinear time domain code based on the strip theory is used for the calculation of the rigid body response of the vessel. The radiation, diffraction, Froude-krylov and hydrostatic forces are calculated for the exact wetted surface area of the ship at each time step. A practical engineering approach is followed to calculate the body nonlinear radiation and diffraction forces. The numerical vertical bending moment is compared with the experimental results. The experiment was conducted on a flexible model in both regular and irregular waves. The model comprised six segments that were joined with an aluminum backbone of variable stiffness characteristics in order to replicate the hydroelastic behavior of the real ship. The model was tested for two ship speeds, 15 and 22 knots. For the first three harmonic values of the vertical bending moment, a good agreement between the numerical and the experimental results are found. However, higher harmonics significantly contributed to the total experimental vertical bending moment, in regular waves with 8m wave height and a ship speed of 15 knots. Similarly, the value of the fourth harmonic was 32% of the first harmonic values when the ship encountered a 5m regular wave with 22 knots speed. On comparison of the rigid body response in irregular seas, the hydroelastic loads resulted in 49% increase in the maximum value of the vertical bending moment.
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