Nuisance effects of passing ships
Description
Ships sailing in ports cause water movements that result in forces in mooring lines and movements of moored ships. These effects are increasingly taken into account when designing new ports or allowing larger ships in existing ports. Increasingly, calculation methods are applied when investigating causes of damage to mooring systems caused by passing ships.
The lecture will give some examples of an accident and near-miss that have occurred in the past and how these incidents have provided impulses in the development of theories and calculation methods to explain and quantify the most important phenomena.
In recent years, methods have been developed to predict hydrodynamic forces on moored vessels that also take into account the complex geometry of the harbour in the vicinity of the moored vessel. These methods are increasingly applied in assessing the safety of the mooring system of a moored vessel and the movements of the vessel in relation to loading and unloading operations.
A brief overview of the background and assumptions of the methods and validation of calculations using model and full-scale measurements will be given.
Finally, some examples will be given of new LNG, Container and Tanker terminals where these prediction methods have been applied. This will also address the reactions that may occur when intentions to develop a new port become known!
19.30 coffee
20.00 start lectures
Speaker(s)
Prof.dr.ir. J.A. Pinkster, PMH BV
Location
Lecture Room D, W&S building
Mekelweg 2, Delft
Organiser
Maritime Engineering
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