Purpose

• Assessment of the damage extents and consequences of ship grounding accidents
• Design to reduce damage extents
• Reducing the risk of environmental pollution
• Analysis of rest strength of grounded ships
• Risk of structural collapse due to waves and wind
• Analysis of grounding forces
• Salvage/floating operations

Benefits

• Specialised competence in grounding analyses
• Analysis and documentation of the events of grounding accidents
• Design to reduce the damage extents in case of groundings
• Reduction of risk and consequences of pollution
• Measures to reduce consequences
• Planning of rescue/floating operations

Features

• Analysis of motion and loads and energies absorbed during grounding accidents
• Simplified time simulations of accidents by use of computer routine “DAMAGE” (JIP project development/MIT university)
• Detailed non-linear finite element simulations by use of ABAQUS Explicit
• Analysis of grounding forces
• Damage stability analyses in grounded condition
• Analysis of rest strength of grounded vessel