College of Maritime Engineering, and,

Biological, Oceanic and Natural Resource Sciences

Naval Architecture II: Inclining experiment with flooding

Naval Engineering Program

To compare the metacentric height of a ship model determined

1 Objectives
experimentally and numerically to observe the influence of flooding.

Review the equations to determine metacentric height applying lateral

2 Theoretical introduction displacements of a certain weight. Describe the way a flooding in a
ship influences the metacentric height.
The objective may be reached by developing an inclining experiment to
obtain heel angles for different weight motions. Then from plots of tangent of
heel vs heeling moment (weight*displaced distance) in both situation, the
3 Experimental design influence of flooding may be evaluated. Variables to be considered: angle of
heel resulting from a displaced weight, registered by electronic inclinometer,
and, calibrated rule. Parameters to be registered: weight distribution of
model, moving weight and volume of flooded compartment.

Present table of angles of heel caused by heel moment. Then with a

Summary of
4 commercial software calculate the righting curve using the intact KG, and
results
considering flooding of the compartment. Plot simultaneously both results.

Calculate the slopes at the origin of the two curves, experimental and
5 Analysis of results numerical. In the case of the experimental, use a linear regression and
calculate the R2 parameter, and, comment on this result.

Conclusions and Are the numerical results close to the numerical ones, so that you can trust
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recommendations the use of the computer software?

Bibliographic Include the references mentioned in the report, use an appropriate format to
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references cite the references.