A METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE PROBABLE NUMBER AND SEVERITY OF COLISIONS BETWEEN FOILBORNE CRAFT AND FLOATING DEBRIS,

Abstract

Onetype of loading which an operational hydrofoil craft will experience is that resulting from collisions with items of floating debris. This investigation derives a method for predicting the approximate number of collisions producing a structural response of given severity to be anticipated over a long operating period. The derivation is based on certain assumed debris item frequency distributions. Numerical values for these distributions are needed to give practical value to the proposed method. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0422277

Entities

People

  • Nathan K. Bales

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Dynamic Response
  • Frequency
  • Hydrofoil Craft
  • Hydrofoils
  • Mechanical Waves
  • Modal Analysis
  • Motion
  • Structural Response
  • Vibration
  • Waves

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics