Abstract
In order to avoid the loss of human lives due to a collision of ships, it is very important to have a correct understanding on the phenomena of collision of ships and collapse of ships due to collision. A more reasonable model describing collision of ships and whole structure analysis is proposed in the present paper. Present model employs lumped masses with elasto-plastic spring system to represent striking ship considering hydrodynamic effect during collision process. When the responses of the whole structures of a striking ship and a struck one are estimated properly, more exact local structure analysis would be possible. And this makes it possible to design more reliable shock absorbing structures, soft bow for example. Quite good results are shown for behavior and deformation of striking ship by very simple calculation based upon the model proposed in the present paper.
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