Prediction of Oil Outflow in the Case of a Ship-Ship Collision Based on Energy Considerations

摘要

The work reported herein aims at the development of a methodology for the assessment of the behavior of tankers when involved in a ship-ship collision. It may be applied for the comparison of the behavior of tankers with different tank arrangements and it further accounts for differences in the structural configuration and scantlings. The proposed methodology is based, on the one hand, on the results of an analysis of damage cases expressed in terms of oil outflow versus collision energy and, on the other hand, on the distribution function of collision energy. These relationships are combined to obtain the distribution function of the oil outflow. The use of the methodology to investigate the influence of a stringer plate in a double-hull tanker illustrates its applicability and potential.