Container vessels Capacity and Stability

Using GetxoNaval program

In my post of October 12, 2012 I enclosed a reference to an aproximate calculation of capacity of container vessels that now I have included in a larger program, called GetxoNaval, made-up of a set of calculations relating to main aspects to be considered during the preliminary design of a merchant ship, i.e. the dimensioning stage. But the revised module corresponding to container vessels is far more complete than the one displayed in said blog post. It now includes stability calculation, static and dynamic, with corresponding curves.

Clicking on next link you will enter in GetxoNaval program, that at this moment includes following modules:

GETXONAVAL

1. Tonnage
2. Cruising ships
3. Stability cargo ship
4. Stability deck barge
5. Stability container carrier
6. Hull forms (coefficients)
7. Freeboard
8. Maneouverability
9. Lightship weight
10. Predimensioning
11. Powering
12. Cargo & tanks capacities
13. Help

Additional modules are expected to be added and all will be subject to continuous revision.

Dimensioning a merchant ship

 With the program GetxoNaval

GetxoNaval program  objective is to  allow making  quick, approximate calculations necessary to define the dimensions of a merchant ship. This program can be used basically in two different ways:

• To make an estimation of the main ship dimensions based on  its size, defined, for example, by deadweight, number of containers, volume  of cargo spaces etc.
• To make a calculation of different particulars (deadweight, speed etc.) of a ship whose  main dimensions are known, either  because they have been defined in the previous point, or for being a known ship but one or several of her capacities are unknown.

Clicking  following link you can access to the program GetxoNaval  hosted  in Google-Sites.

GetxoNaval