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SHIP & BOATBUILDING TECHNOLOGY

KMM Tests World

Class Product Tanker

Moritech funding aids in development of 40,000-dwt tanker

Passenger

Vessels Should

Take Passengers

For A Ride, Not

The Owners. uido Perla & Associates can bring a wealth of ign and construction experience to your next 'passenger vessel. Founded in 1979, this full-service naval architecture, marine engineering, and pro- ject management firm has developed passenger vessel designs, from pocket cruisers to riverboat casinos to passenger/car ferries to new technolo- gy for high speed ocean transport.

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Kvaerner Masa Marine Inc. (KMM) has completed a model test program of its 40,000- dwt World Class product tanker design at the

B.C. Research Ocean Engineering Center on behalf of an undisclosed o\ test program included keeping tests to verify! mance in calm water al state-of-the-art tanker was designed \>r

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Maritech program and consortium members.

Mark^^eseajxiwiasried out for MTC identi- classqs that have good poten- international markets, irst w/\i 5y-ft. (182-m), 40,000-dwt d Cw^s series product carrier and the second was an 886-ft. (270-m), 125,000-dwt

Alaska series crude carrier capable of

Suezmax service. Designs for both ships have been developed by KMM to meet new requirements for double hulls. Innovative propulsion systems have been evaluated for ships includ- ing diesel-electric, azipod and geared medium-speed diesels with control- lable pitch propellers for both single and twin screw arrangements. In addition to resistance and seakeeping tests, experiments were conducted in association with the University of

British Columbia (UBC) to measure the waves generated by the hull when towed in calm waters. A laser imag- ing system was used to measure the wave elevation across a transverse section of the water surface as the model passed a fixed point in the tow- ing tanker. The sections were then combined to produce a 3-D surface of the wave elevations around the hull.

Kvaerner Masa Marine Inc. will use the wave measurements to validate numerical predictions of the waves from a new hydrodynamics program which is currently under develop- ment. KMM is also working with

UBC on a new method of predicting the flow field, waves and wave resis- tance of ships. The method is based on a parabolized slender-body theory and employs the boundary-element technique with a non-linear, free-sur- face boundary condition. KMM will use the software to optimize the hull forms of future ship designs by mini- mizing the wave resistance.

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