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Experimental study on the dynamical response of elastic trimaran model under slamming load

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Since the slamming load could cause severe damage of wet deck of ship hull girder, the interaction between the structural response and hydrodynamic loading should be considered. A large scaled model of trimaran was designed, which could consider the structural elastic for studying the structural response of trimaran hull girder. The testing model was vertically dropped into still water in the tank to simulate typical hydroelastic slamming load, in which various impact velocities were considered. Each load condition was conducted several times to verify the repeatability and reproducibility of the experimental data. The slamming pressure and strain distributions are presented and discussed. The ranges of maximum slamming pressure and the danger area are identified for design of this type of trimaran.

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This work has been supported by the Natural Science Fund of China (Grant Nos. 52371319, 51609192).

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  1. Key Laboratory of High Performance Ship Technology (Wuhan University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China

    Jin Pan

  2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Energy Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Jin Pan, Wen Zhe Zhang & Zhi Mian Sun

  3. Hebei Han Guang Industry Co. Ltd, Handan, China

    Zhi Mian Sun

  4. Marine Design and Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China

    Xue Qu

  5. School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science& Technology, Wuhan, China

    Ming Cai Xu

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Pan, J., Zhang, W.Z., Sun, Z.M. et al. Experimental study on the dynamical response of elastic trimaran model under slamming load. J Mar Sci Technol 29, 20–35 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-023-00969-y

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