Design hydrostatics report

Design hydrostatics report

VLCS COLOMBO EXPRESS Class
Designer Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. Ulsan, 2006
Created by (c) Ralph Grothe, August 2012
Comment This fbm file is distributed under the Creative Commons License
Filename COLOMBO_EXPRESS_Class_stripped.fbm
Design length 96,000 (m) Midship location 48,000 (m)
Length over all 101,42 (m) Relative water density 1,0250
Design beam 18,500 (m) Mean shell thickness 0,0000 (m)
Maximum beam 18,500 (m) Appendage coefficient 1,0000
Design draft 7,480 (m)

Volume properties Waterplane properties

Moulded volume 7846,96 (m 3) Length on waterline 95,456 (m)
Total displaced volume 7846,96 (m 3) Beam on waterline 18,500 (m)
Displacement 8043,14 (tonnes) Entrance angle 7,916 (Degr.)
Block coefficient 0,5907 Waterplane area 1369,2 (m 2)
Prismatic coefficient 0,6101 Waterplane coefficient 0,7710
Vert. prismatic coefficient 0,7662 Waterplane center of floatation 40,746 (m)
Wetted surface area 2387,4 (m 2) Transverse moment of inertia 33088 (m 4)
Longitudinal center of buoyancy 44,239 (m) Longitudinal moment of inertia 699890 (m 4)
Longitudinal center of buoyancy -3,940 %
Vertical center of buoyancy 4,144 (m)

Midship properties Initial stability

Midship section area 134,0 (m 2) Transverse metacentric height 8,361 (m)
Midship coefficient 0,9682 Longitudinal metacentric height 93,337 (m)

Lateral plane
Lateral area 701,9 (m 2)
Longitudinal center of effort 50,425 (m)
Vertical center of effort 3,783 (m)

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The following layer properties are calculated for both sides of the ship
Location Area Thickness Weight LCG TCG VCG
(m 2) (m) (tonnes) (m) (m) (m)
Hull 4422,2 0,000 0,00 46,156 0,000 (CL) 6,882
Maindeck 1757,7 0,000 0,00 45,464 0,000 (CL) 14,097
Focsle 119,3 0,000 0,00 93,146 0,000 (CL) 15,823
Focsle_Bulkhead 28,4 0,000 0,00 89,178 0,000 (CL) 14,978
Bow_Thruster 8,9 0,000 0,00 90,999 0,000 (CL) 1,842
Total 6336,6 0,00 0,000 0,000 (CL) 0,000

Sectional areas
Location Area Location Area Location Area Location Area Location Area
(m) (m 2) (m) (m 2) (m) (m 2) (m) (m 2) (m) (m 2)
0,000 0,0 14,400 72,8 43,200 134,1 67,200 82,3 91,200 11,8
2,400 3,0 19,200 95,7 48,000 134,0 72,000 63,1 93,600 12,4
4,800 18,9 24,000 115,6 48,000 134,0 76,800 45,1 96,000 11,0
7,200 35,3 28,800 127,5 52,800 131,0 81,600 31,1 97,200 9,1
9,600 48,2 33,600 131,5 57,600 120,9 86,400 22,8 98,400 5,6
12,000 60,6 38,400 133,2 62,400 102,7 88,800 18,8

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Sectional areas

130

120

110

100

90

80

Area (m2) 70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Location (m)

NOTE 1: Draft (and all other vertical heights) is measured from base Z=0,000
NOTE 2: All calculated coefficients based on project length, draft and beam.

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