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Real Time Estimation of Local Wave Characteristics from Ship Motions Using Artificial Neural Networks
22 Sep 2019
Wave characteristics such as significant wave height, peak period and main direction have an important effect on all aspects of ship operations. ...
Magazine
Digital twinning in harsh weather
13 Sep 2019
MARIN is set to carry out the full-scale monitoring and develop the digital twin of a floating wind prototype off the west coast of Ireland.Subject ...
Paper
The Ocean Cleanup System 001 Performance During Towing and Seakeeping Tests
9 Jun 2019
One of the aims of The Ocean Cleanup is to develop technologies to extract plastic pollution from the world’s oceans. Several concepts of passive ...
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Experimental investigation of the hydro-elastic behaviour of flexible composite propellers in non-uniform flow at model and full scale
26 May 2019
In this paper, new developments in the measurement technology of the hydro-elastic response of flexible composite propellers are described. The ...
Paper
Integrity Management of Mooring Systems
6 May 2019
Mooring systems remain an important component of an overall field development. There are numerous sources in literature describing challenges with ...
Magazine
Tackling the growing plastic pollution problem
15 Dec 2018
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The Ocean Cleanup has developed and built the first prototype of a free-floating cleanup system that will be placed in the North Pacific gyre to ...
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Measuring the deformations of a composite propeller at full scale
15 Aug 2018
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Important measurement data was gathered at full scale to facilitate the design of shape-adaptive propellers. Ship propellers are generally ...
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Experimental validation of fluid–structure interaction computations of flexible composite propellers in open water conditions using BEM-FEM and rans-fem methods
7 May 2018
In the past several decades, many papers have been published on fluid–structure coupled calculations to analyse the hydro-elastic response of ...
Magazine
Optical measurement techniques lead to highly accurate deformation measurements
17 Aug 2017
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Optical measurement techniques are becoming more and more important for MARIN and its customers.