seafastening design Archives - Page 2 of 3

Designing a clip/dog plate for seafastening

by Team TheNavalArch | Oct 13, 2020 | Articles

Introduction In an earlier article, we saw how to design stoppers for seafastening. Stoppers are items that are used to contain the translation movements (longitudinal and transverse directions) of a cargo on the deck/hold of a vessel. That brings us to the question –...

Designing the lashings of deck cargo using IMO CSS

by Team TheNavalArch | Jul 5, 2020 | Articles

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...

Designing a pad-eye: little items with big intricacies

by Team TheNavalArch | Apr 5, 2020 | Articles

Pad-eyes are one of the smallest and most universally used structural items in the maritime and Oil & Gas industry. They are used for a variety of purposes too: from a simple seafastening of a cargo to deck of a vessel, to complicated lifting operations involving...

Designing a simple 4-point lashing system for a Deck Cargo

by Team TheNavalArch | Feb 8, 2020 | Articles

Introduction Lashing of a deck cargo on a ship involves different means and mechanisms to secure the cargo to the deck of the ship. This ‘securing’ is important to contain the movement of the cargo in view of the ship motions during the transportation. The simplest...

Transportation Analysis for deck cargo – complete breakdown

by Team TheNavalArch | Jun 1, 2019 | Articles

Introduction In the simplest terms, Transportation Analysis is the complete design and engineering which goes behind making a transportation operation successful. In this post we’ll talk about transportation of project cargo over deck. Such cargo can be...