On the Performance of Free Fall Lifeboats during Drop and Sail Away
Conference/JournalThe Twenty-third International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Date30 Jun 2013
The paper investigates the performance of free fall life boats during drop- and sail away, targeting both experimental techniques and software development. Particular emphasis is put on clarifying what kind of tests should be carried out in order to tune the pertinent software for evaluating the lifeboat response. A variety of tests are also proposed in order to provide benchmark cases for software and for demonstrating system behaviour.
Stochastic environments, different time scales, scatter among test samples and occasional shortcomings in vessel manoeuvrability add to the problem of making reliable predictions for free fall lifeboats. The inherent randomness of the problem necessitates a large number of tests and numerical simulations in order to investigate the statistical properties of the lifeboat path during getaway.
The paper is providing evidence and guidance on how to meet these challenges. Theoretical arguments are given, underpinning the claims made, and further justification is provided by a number of experiments and test examples.
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Stochastic environments, different time scales, scatter among test samples and occasional shortcomings in vessel manoeuvrability add to the problem of making reliable predictions for free fall lifeboats. The inherent randomness of the problem necessitates a large number of tests and numerical simulations in order to investigate the statistical properties of the lifeboat path during getaway.
The paper is providing evidence and guidance on how to meet these challenges. Theoretical arguments are given, underpinning the claims made, and further justification is provided by a number of experiments and test examples.
This paper is copyrighted material and cannot be shared. Due to copyright policy MARIN is not allowed to reproduce and distribute papers written for and presented at the OTC (Offshore Technology Conference), ISOPE (International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference) and SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers). You can order these papers through
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