The “design spiral” of a new ship consists of various milestones, one of them dealing with
resistance prediction of the fully appended hull and with the proper placement of …

Manoeuvring is one of the fundamental qualities of the ship. It has a direct impact on the
operability of the unit and therefore on the shipowner's perception of quality. Furthermore …

This paper presents an approach that combines metamodeling technique and Monte-Carlo
simulation for safety analyses of still water loads for bulk carriers. The approach is applied to …

Abstract An approach for Engineering Robust Design Problems based on multi-objective
optimization in the solution phase is presented in this paper. The task for optimizing …

The total amount of loaded cargo for bulk carriers is obtained after the final draught survey.
Despite the presence of approved loading plan and loading sequences, no accurate and …

El hundimiento en 1956 del buque Andrea Doria, abrió un debate dentro del mundo
marítimo. Se planteó si, para alcanzar niveles de seguridad aceptables en los buques de …

The harmonized SOLAS 2009 regulations on damage stability and subdivision are based on
a probabilistic concept that uses the probability of survival as a measure of ships' safety in a …