Method of determining and analyzing a ship's weight

Details Method of determining and analyzing a ship's weight Method of determining and analyzing a ship's weight

1998-11-24

2000-11-28

Taylor, Dennis L.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Marine vessel portage, launching, or removing

Lifting

114 48, 405 4, 414678, B63C 306

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RE0369713

ABSTRACT:
A method of assessing a ships weight so as to e.g. assist in its design and development, or to ascertain its actual center of gravity or its loaded state, comprises positioning the ship on a dry dock platform made up of a number of articulatedly joined sub platforms connected for lifting and lowerng by hoist winches. The hoist winches include signal devices which signal the load each is supporting, to a computer and visual display unit which displays the loads. The computer computes e.g. the center of gravity or the ships weight, in the displacement of the center of gravity from its designed position, the information then being passed to the designer.

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