Abstract
This paper deals with methods of determining loads on ships and their application in dimensioning ship structure. Main topcs are: description of measurements on board ships, comparison of measured and computed transfer functions, hydrodynamical and statistical investigations concerning wave loads, still-water load statistics, combination of loads and optimization of structural safety. The paper resulted from 8 years of research by a sub-group B1 of Sonderforschungsbereich 98: a research organization (funded mainly by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in which the universities of Hannover and Hamburg, the towing tank Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (HSVA) and the classification society Germanischer Lloyd cooperate to improve the safety and economic viability of ships.
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