Steller Systems at 14th International Ship Stability Workshop

Friday, August 1st, 2014

Steller Systems will be presenting two papers at the 14th International Ship Stability Workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September.

Two of Steller’ naval architects, Dominic Horner and Rick Goddard, will be presenting a paper entitled “Small Combatant Accidental Damage Extents”, which explores the impact on vessel design of moving from a two-compartment damage requirement to a 15% length damage extent, through a series of design explorations on four current small combatants.

Meanwhile Rick Goddard will also present a paper entitled “A New Approach to the Derivation of V-Line Criteria for a Range of Naval Vessels”, which compares heave and roll allowances derived from the probability of water height on the bulkheads bounding the damage.  The comparison was conducted in varying sea states and for a number of vessel types, and enabled conclusions to be drawn regarding the suitability of current criteria for a variety of vessels and in particular their sensitivity to sea state.