| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L86838/01 |
| Title: |
JREI: DEDICATED CENTRE FOR TESTING THE DAMAGE SURVIVABILITY OF PASSENGER/RORO VESSELS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Vassalos, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Eng |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
JREI |
| Starts: |
25 June 1998 |
Ends: |
24 March 1999 |
Value (£): |
42,500
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Transport Ops & Management |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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A successful application on last year's Joint Research Equipment Initiative enabled the Ship Stability Research Centre (SSRC) to upgrade an existing (ineffective) wave generation and motion measuring systems, thus allowing the Denny Ship Model Basin at Dunbarton to be utilised as a dedicated centre for testing the survivaility of RoRo vessels according to the equivalent route, recently proposed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Coupling this to the ability of SSRC to utilise proven in-house developed software for assessing the damage survivability of ships, has put the Centre in a strong position to offer an unmatched cost-effective service to the maritime industry. As a result SSRC was successful in establishing long-term collaborative programmes with a number of major players in the ferry industry, with contracts in place for the upgrading of 16 ships through a combination of numerical and physical model testing in the next nine months. This heavy programme clearly demonstrates the need and the success of the service SSRC could provide to the marine industry. One serious problem still remaining and developing to threaten the testing programme relates to the nearly 40-year old towing carriage of the tank, which has become unreliable. In this respect, the proposal is aimed primarily at seeking support to upgrade this apparatus. In addition, funding for a mulit-component load cell is requested in support of key research activites at SSRC in the subject of damage survivability of ships.The cost of the proposed upgrading is 85,000, half of which will be provided by industry.
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http://www.strath.ac.uk |