An Examination of Underway Replenishment Seakeeping Criteria

Abstract

Underway Replenishment (UNREP) is an important operation for sustained naval operations. When evaluating Underway Replenishment operations, it is necessary to consider the main factors that reduce operability. The main sources of degradation identified in this report are: ship-to-ship interaction, equipment limits, and human factors. This report examines these sources and provides a method for generating criteria sets for operability evaluations. The example criteria sets developed represent the three different aspects of UNREP and use the presented threshold values. Though comprehensive analysis is suggested, various assumptions are made to allow analysis of cases where the details of the ship configuration are unknown. The effects of these assumptions are explained.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1992
Accession Number
AD1003688

Entities

People

  • Timothy C. Smith

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Degradation
  • Military Equipment
  • Naval Operations
  • Replenishment
  • Safety Equipment
  • Seakeeping
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.