Stress Distribution of a Box Girder with Hatch Openings

摘要

Longitudinal bending moments induce not only longitudinal streses in the ship hull girder but also transverse stresses in the hull section, for a bulk carrier in particular. Oil tankers have been known to have relative vertical deflections between the side shell plating and the longitudinal bulkhead plating, which cause bending stresses in the transverse webs.