A combined numerical and semi-analytical collision damage assessment procedure

Marine Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-119

  Ehlers, Sören ^a   Tabri, Kristjan ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Collision damage; Coupling; External dynamics; Internal mechanics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL EVENT; ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; AVAILABLE ENERGY; COLLISION ANALYSIS; COLLISION DAMAGE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; EXTERNAL DYNAMICS; MASS RATIO; QUASI-STATIC; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SHIP COLLISION; STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL RESISTANCE;

COUPLINGS; DAMAGE DETECTION;

SHIPS;

COLLISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMAGE; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SAFETY; SHIP DESIGN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VESSEL;

EID: 84862836450     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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