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1 Basic Free Surface Effects WE 1
1 Basic Free Surface Effects WE 1
A box shaped vessel has a length of 50 metres, a beam of 8 metres and a lightship draft of 2 metres. The lightship KG is 3 metres. The vessel has a swimming pool, with the base of the pool 4 metres above the keel. The pool is 15 metres long, and 8 metres wide. Determine the effective GM of the vessel if the pool is filled to a depth of 1 metre with fresh water.
The lightship displacement can be found from the geometry, draft and water density:
= LBT = 50 8 2 1.025 = 820 tonnes
To start with, we treat the fluid as a solid cargo. The process of calculation is identical to loading a solid cargo:
Cargo Mass = 15 8 1 1.000 = 120 tonnes
Fluid Depth 2
1 = 4.5 metres 2
Solid KG =
The draft, BM,KB and GM can be found in the loaded (solid) condition:
LB 940 T= = 2.29m 50 8 1.025 T=
T 2.29 = = 1.15 metres 2 2
KB =
Clearly the vessel is dangerously unstable. Free surface effect is strongly influenced by the beam of the free surface. Reducing the beam by adding longitudinal watertight baffles in the fluid. This is modelled by the n value (not the tank length and beam).
Loss In GM = IF/S F/S n2
15 8 3 1.000 12 = 0.17 metres Loss In GM = 940 2 2 Fluid GM = Solid GM - Loss In GM Fluid GM = 0.28 - 0.17 = 0.11 metres
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