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FLARE project makes significant contribution to passenger safety
8 apr. 2022
Reading time 12 minutes
We have all heard about tragic accidents and the sad stories of lost lives at sea when vessels capsize or sink, due to a collision or grounding. It ...
Paper
Forces on bilge keels in regular and irregular oscillating flow
17 jun. 2012
This paper presents a validated methodology to calculate the oscillatory loads on bilge keels of ships operating at zero forward speed in irregular ...
Magazine
Three year study ELAST ends with interesting results
1 aug. 2004
Reading time 3 minutes
This year the Co-operative Research Ship (CRS) project ELAST finalised its three year study on the correlation
between bow-flare slamming and ...
Paper
Seakeeping behaviour of a frigate-type trimaran
29 apr. 2004
The motion behaviour of a frigate-type trimaran was studied in a joint co-operation between the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), the, Maritime ...
Paper
Conceptual design investigations of a very high speed transpacific container vessel
1 jan. 2001
Integrated transportation chains and faster ships based on developing technology are capable of significantly reducing the time of delivery of ...
Paper
Mechanisms and physics leading to the capsize of damaged ships
1 jan. 2001
This paper focuses on the characteristics of flooding and capsizing of different types of ships. For ro-ro ferries the paper discusses transient ...
Paper
Damage survivability of a new Ro-ro ferry
1 jan. 2000
This paper presents experimental investigations involving the dynamic behaviour and survivability of a damaged ro-ro passenger ferry. It concerns a ...
