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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Pan, Deweia | Lin, Chengxinb; * | Zhou, Zhaoxina | Sun, Yuqianga | Sun, Yuhaoa | Liu, Zhijieb
Affiliations: [a] Navigation College, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai 264209, China | [b] Transportation Equipments and Ocean Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Chengxin Lin, Professor, Transportation equipment and ocean engineering college, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, Liaoning, China. Tel.: +86 411 84724292; Fax: +86 411 84724292; E-mail: lch_xin@126.com.
Abstract: In the process of marine salvage, the capsized ship is normally required to go through a process of righting firstly, which essentially means bringing the deck to point upwards. Calculation of the righting force is the key to achieving success in designing schemes. At present, the righting force calculation relies on the use of empirical formulae. However, their accuracy and reliability is not high. In this paper, a mathematical model of the flooding quantity and righting force was established based on the hydrostatic theory applied to the ship. A three-dimensional ship model was built via General Hydrostatics software (GHS) to simulate the uprighting process of a capsized and damaged ship. Four typical uprighting processes concerning capsized ships were simulated, namely the case where about 50% of the superstructure volume was filled with water (Case 1), where about 50% of the engine room volume was filled with water (Case 2), where the superstructure was detached (Case 3) and where a large amount of air in the damaged compartments existed (Case 4). Simulation results show that the proportion between the maximum righting moment and the maximum righting moment in the opposite direction is 0.459, 0.486, 0.424 and 0.346 for cases A, B, C and D, respectively. So a larger righting force moment in the opposite direction is needed to prevent the ship from being damaged again or from capsizing again. The shear force is not always increasing with the flooding quantity or displacement. The effect of flooding water distribution is more obvious than the flooding quantity and displacement for a ship with many damaged compartments when the trim angle variation is very small. Thus, the righting force can be efficiently reduced by designing reasonable uprighting schemes.
Keywords: Hydrostatic, capsize, damaged ship, uprighting, righting force moment
DOI: 10.3233/ISP-180142
Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 73-92, 2018
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