ME 6201 Naval Architecture

& Basics of Hull Engineering

EG/2018/3289 Bogahawaththa K.G.P
EG/2018/3331 Gunarathna M.S
EG/2018/3381 Liyanage T.K
EG/2018/3386 Madhusanka H.S
EG/2018/3388 Madhuwantha D.M.T.C
EG/2018/3444 Sabik K.M
EG/2018/3460 Senevirathna H.MY.G.V.S
EG/2018/3483 Thilakarathna D.M.S.K
EG/2018/3485 Vijithananda G.M.G.R.C
EG/2018/3491 Waruni L.E.K.M
Topic : Floodable
Length Curve

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• Margin Line
• Reserve of Buoyancy
• Concept of Subdivision of a Ship
• What is a Floodable length curve?
• What is the main purpose of floodable length curve?
• How to build the floodable length curve of a ship?
• Concept of Permeability
• Floodable lengths with permeability
• Permissible length Curve
• Floodable length Measure by using software
• Maxsurf Stability Software
Margin Line
• An imaginary waterline considered 75 mm (3’’) below the uppermost continuous
watertight deck
• A ship is considered to be safe only if the margin line is not immersed.

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Reserve of Buoyancy
•The volume of the enclosed spaces above the waterline.

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Concept of Subdivision of a Ship
•Traditionally, a ship is divided longitudinally into a number of watertight compartments
to restrict the flooding to one or more compartments in case of damage.

But,
•How many watertight bulkheads would a particular ship require?
•Into how many compartments do we divide a ship?

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What is a Floodable length curve?
Floodable length is the amount of ship length (centered at the ordinate) which may be flooded without the
waterline rising above the margin line. The maximum floodable length of the ship is shown by the floodable
length curve along the length of the ship.

The floodable length curve represents the maximum floodable length of the ship along the ship's length.
This curve is obtained by vertically plotting the floodable length along the ship's length.

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What is the main purpose of
floodable length curve?
The maximum length of a ship that may be flooded without drowning the margin line, often referred to as the
deck line, is known as the floodable length.

The floodable length curve is placed on the ship's plan to see if the ship would abide by this damage stability
criteria. The damage stability compliance is then examined one compartment at a time. At the center of the
compartment, a vertical line is shown representing the length of the presumed damaged compartment.

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How to build the floodable length
curve of a ship?
The floodable length (l) is the maximum portion of the ship's length with the point 'P' at the center that can be completely
flooded symmetrically without immersing the margin line for any point 'P' along the length of the ship. We represent the
floodable length of each point on the vertical axis for our convenience. As a result, we can plot the floodable length at
point 'F' on the vertical axis for point 'P.' Similarly, the Floodable Length Curve is obtained by plotting the floodable
lengths of all the points on the ship.

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 Amount of water that can be entered to the
compartment after it has been bilged

Bilges

• Lowest part of the ship

• Water collects here Bilge water
• Comes from drains (Engine room)

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Concept of Permeability ctd:
Items in the compartment Reduce the total volume that can be occupied by the flooded water

General Values for Permeability

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Floodable lengths with permeability
• Permeabilities of compartments will affect the floodable length.
• This leads to 3 curves for the complete ship.

Permissible length = Floodable length x

Permeability
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Permissible length Curve

Importance of the Permissible length curve, AB – Within the Permissible length

How we asses whether compartment BC IS safe or not?
• To judge the final compartment standards BC – Cargo holds ( permeability is as low as 60 percent)
of the ship
Hence,

triangle for this compartment is to be checked against the 60

percent permissible length curve

CD- Marginal Compartment

( length of compartment= floodable length)
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Floodable length Measure by
using software
• Most commonly used software is Maxsurf Stability
software
• It has a floodable length Analysis Mode

Inputs

• Permeability range
• Displacement range
• Initial trim or CG
• Immersion criterion
• freeboard of margin line or deck edge
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Maxsurf Stability Software
Results:
• Computed floodable length curve for each permeability + displacement combination
• Graphs optionally including compartment lengths (for any number of adjacent flooded
compartments) and vessel profile

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