Probabilistic survivability assessment of damaged passenger Ro-Ro ships using Monte-Carlo simulation

International Shipbuilding Progress

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-300

  Santos, Tiago A ^a   Guedes Soares, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; LOADING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

SURVIVABILITY;

SHIPS;

EID: 0036955160     PISSN: 0020868X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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