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Ship Capsize Risk Assessment and Designing Against Capsize
Author(s) -
Sichermann Wolfgang,
Kreuzer Edwin
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200310520
Subject(s) - marine engineering , level crossing , computer science , simulation , environmental science , control theory (sociology) , meteorology , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , control (management)
A promissing approach for assessing ship safety against capsize is presented by Melnikov's method. The mean zero up‐crossing rate of the dynamical system's associated Melnikov process provides an upper bound for the mean capsizing rate in a stationary sea state. Due to its moderate computational effort if low dimensional systems are considered, this approach is particularly suited for applications in ship design.