EVALUATING THE SEAKEEPING PERFORMANCE OF DESTROYER-TYPE SHIPS

A technique for the evaluation of the seakeeping performance of destroyer-type ships is presented and applied to four radically different hypothetical designs. The procedure involves first the adoption of suitable criteria of seagoing performance, with the tentative selection of numerical indices re...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hamlin,Norman A., Compton,Roger H.
Other Authors: WEBB INST OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE GLEN COVE N Y
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Marine Engineering
*DESTROYERS
*NAVAL VESSELS
*OCEAN WAVES
ATLANTIC OCEAN
VELOCITY
PROBABILITY
SHIPS
MOTION
PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0650750
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0650750
Description
Summary:A technique for the evaluation of the seakeeping performance of destroyer-type ships is presented and applied to four radically different hypothetical designs. The procedure involves first the adoption of suitable criteria of seagoing performance, with the tentative selection of numerical indices related to ship motion. Next to be considered is the determination of the behavior of the four designs in head seas in the North Atlantic Ocean, utilizing linear superposition techniques to evaluate the response of the vessels to different realistic short-crested sea spectra. Calculations are based upon theoretical response amplitude operators obtained by applying strip theory to determine the response of the vessels to regular waves. The final evaluation of seakeeping performance is then obtained in the form of long term probability of not exceeding the stated numerical indices as functions of ship speed.

Similar Items