Paper

A Rational Approach to Simulate Hull Girder Still Water Shear Force for Container Ships

2019/8/22 13:24:53

Abstract No.C180209-233

Author name(s): Jiameng WU1,2,3, Wenbo ZHU2,3, Yingliang LIU3, Jiaying WANG4

Company: 1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; 2. Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Ship and Deep-Sea Exploration, China; 3. Marine Design & Research Institute of China, China; 4. Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd., China

 

Hull girder shear strength assessment is one of the important checks for hull girder strength along the full length of the hull girder. Recently released IACS UR S11A greatly increases the wave shear force for container ships. However, in SOLAS or Class rules, there is no clear requirement for how to accurately simulate the still water shear force for container ships. In this paper, two approaches of modeling containers¡¯ weight are compared. Big deviations are found at the region of transverse bulkheads for typical container ships with uniform load modeling approach and point load modeling approach. Uniform load modeling approach underestimates the extreme value of vertical still water shear force. The results verified in global finite element analysis show that point load modeling approach is more reasonable to simulate the still water shear force for container ships. At the same time, some useful conclusions are summarized for loading manual with point load modeling approach.

 

KEY WORDS: container ship; shear force; loading manual; uniform load modeling approach; point load modeling approach

 

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