ANALYSIS OF OCEAN
STRUCTURES
NA61005
Autumn 2022 Ritwik Ghoshal
Loads on ships
Static loads:
Do not change over a short period of time
Stillwater loads: External hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy forces,
Lightship weight items: machinery, fittings and fixtures, piping, steering
gear, other fixed equipments etc.
Dead weight items: Cargo, fuel, water etc.
Loads on ships
Static loads on ship
Static Equilibrium
Buoyancy Force on ship = Weight of ship
Ship Displacement
Static Equilibrium
Shear Force & Bending Moment
Local segments of the vessel may have more or less weight
than the local buoyancy
Difference between weight and buoyancy curves gives the
shear forces along the vessel
f(x) = b(x) – w(x)
Shear Force:
Bending Moment:
Shear Force & Bending Moment
Application Problem
A box barge is 60 m long with a beam of 10 m.
The ship floats at a lightship draft of 0.524 m in
salt water. The barge in separated into three equal
size compartments, each 20 m long. Two end
compartments are each loaded with 300 tonnes of
cargo, evenly distributed along the length and
beam of the compartment. Draw the load, bending
moments and shear force diagrams.