E6002 Ship Structures I

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Lecture 4:

Longitudinal Strength of Ships

Murrays Method for SWBM Estimation
Introduction
In this lecture we will Discuss Murrays Method to estimate still water bending moments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Murrays Method

Murrays method is based on the idea that forces and moments in a ship are self-balancing (no net force or moment is transferred to the world). Any set of weight and buoyancy forces are in balance.

Also, for any cut at x, the moment at the cut can be determined in two ways; BM ( x) = y1 L1 y 2 L2
= y5 L5 y3 L3 y 4 L4

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Murray applied this idea to a ship:

where ff,fa are the distances from the gf,ga are the distances from the

to the centers of weight (fore and aft) to the centers of buoyancy (fore and aft)

The bending moment at midships is;

= Wa f a a g a

or

=Wf f f f g f

These are two estimates of the maximum bending moment. We can combine the two, and increase our accuracy, by taking the average of the two;

1 (Wa f a + W f f f ) 1 ( a g a + f g f ) 2 2 = BM W BM B weight - buoyancy To find the buoyancy part, Murray suggested =

1 ( a g a + f g f ) = 1 x 2 2 where x = average moment arm BM B =

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Murray suggested a set of values for x , as a function of the ship length, block coefficient and the ratio of draft to length;
x = L( a C B + b) where

T/L .03 .04 .05 .06

a .209 .199 .189 .179

b .03 .041 .052 .063

This table for a and b can be represented adequately by the equation; a = .239 T / L b = .1.1T / L .003

Example using Murrays Method

Ship: Tanker L=278m, B=37m, CB=0.8 Assume wave bending moment is; WBMsag = 583800 t-m WBMhog = 520440 t-m The vessel weights, and weight bending moments are as follows; ITEM Weight lcg Moment (t) (m) (t-m) Fwd cargo 62000 40 2480000 fuel & water 590 116 68440 steel 12000 55.6 667200 3,215,640 Aft cargo machinery outfit steel 49800 3400 900 12000 37 125 120 55.6 1842600 425000 108000 667200 3,042,800 BMw = 3,129,220

140690 t

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To find the buoyancy moment we need the draft;

W = = CB L B T T= 140690 = C B L B 0.8 278 37 1.025 = 16.68 m

T 16.68 = = 0.06 L 278

Murrays table gives; a=0.179, b=0.063

x = 278(.179 0.8 + .063) = 57.32 m

BM B =

1 x 2 1 = 140690 57.32 = 4,032,428 t-m 2

SWBM = BMW-BMB hog sag = 3,129,220 4,032,428 = 903,145 t-m (- is sag) we need to add the wave bending moment in sag Total BM = 903,145 + 583,800 = 1,486,945 t-m (sag) Note that in this case the ship will never get in the hogging condition, because the SWBM is so large.

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Lecture 4 Problems. 1. For the example of Murrays method in the lecture, remove the cargo weight and add 4000 t of ballast, with a cg of 116m fwd of midship. Recalculate the maximum sag and hog moments (both still water and wave). 2. For the example of Murrays method in the lecture, instead of using the weight locations as given, assume that the weights are distributed according to Prohaska. Re-calculate the SWBM.