by Team TheNavalArch | Jul 21, 2020 | Marine Transportation, Towing
Introduction Towlines connect a tug to the vessel being towed and are defined by multiple characteristics like Weight, Diameter, and Stiffness. The tension in the towline during the towing operation is not static but keeps varying with the distance between the tug and...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jul 5, 2020 | Marine Operations, Marine Transportation, Seafastening
Introduction More than 70% of the earth is covered by water, which makes shipping historically the easiest and cheapest way of connecting manufactures and customers across the globe and can be reasonably considered to be the artery of the global economy. An enormous...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jun 30, 2020 | Marine Transportation, Ship Design and Construction, Ship Stability
Barges are the simplest, and yet most widely used of marine vehicles. They are used for a variety of purposes ranging from carrying cargo in bulk or liquid, to even carrying passengers for short inland cruises. Barges are mostly towed by another barge called a tug,...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jun 20, 2020 | Marine Operations, Salvage Operations
by Alessandro La Ferlita, Naval Architect Ultimate hull girder strength represents the maximum capacity, of the hull girder beyond the structure fails. In fact, if the vertical bending moment applied overcomes a certain maximum value, the ship can collapse (Figure 1)...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jun 16, 2020 | Ship Design and Construction, Ship Structural Engineering
The mid-ship section of a ship is a defining structural drawing of the vessel. It represents the most critical structural parameter of the vessel – its global strength. To assess how much of the bending moment (hog and sag) the vessel can tolerate, it is important to...
