Transient design waves for green-water loading on bulk carriers |
| |
Authors: | K R Drake |
| |
Institution: | (1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK, GB |
| |
Abstract: | The wave surface profiles associated with extreme relative motion between a slender stationary vessel and the adjacent wave
surface are investigated for long-crested head seas. The methodology is based upon an established statistical relationship
for a Gaussian random process which indi-cates that in the vicinity of an extreme event the most probable shape of the time
history approaches that of the autocorrelation function. Attention is given to the relative motion at a longitudinal position
which is representative of the No. 1 hatch cover location on a bulk carrier. Second-order corrections to the wave surface
profiles are used to provide estimates of nonlinear relative motions. It is shown that extreme relative motion at the hatch
cover location is associated with the vessel encountering a steep-fronted wave with pronounced asymmetry in the horizontal
and vertical directions. In order to evaluate the exceedence probabilities, it is hypothesized that the peaks of the nonlinear
relative motions are closely correlated with the peaks of an underlying linear process. The overall methodology is applied
to an investigation of relative motion exceedence probabilities for vessel lengths of 250 m and 300 m over a range of survival
seastates.
Received: July, 1999 / Accepted: November, 1999 |
| |
Keywords: | Vessel motion Wave loading |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|