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