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Delivery Sea trials (Contractual trials)
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IMO HSC testing requirements
Stopping
Normal stop from max speed to zero
Emergency stop
Crash stop
Cruise performance in two sea states
Normal conditions
Worst intended conditions
Measurements of accelerations, speed, relative wave heading
Failure tests
Check that the ship, crew and passengers are not at risk if for
instance the steering fails
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Organization of Delivery Trials
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Execution of speed trials
Always run back and forth at same engine setting
Run back and forth at the same track
Perform runs at different speeds (at least three)
If possible, orient the track with and against the wave
direction
Steady Approach
> Min. 10 minutes
Waves
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Measured mile
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Trial Conditions max acceptable
Sea state
When wave spectrum is measured: H1 3 2.25 LPP 100
When wave height is visually observed: H1 3 1.5 LPP 100
Wind
Beufort 6 (20 knots) (for ships with L>100 m)
Beufort 5 (for ships with L 100 m)
Water depth h
If h 3 B TM or h 2.75VS2 g correction is required
Tests shall not be performed in waters where h 2 B TM
or h 2 VS g
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Current
In cases of current time history deviating from the assumed
parabolic/sinusoidal trend and the change of the current speed
within the timespan of one Double Run is more than 0,5 knots,
tests shall not be carried out
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Trial Conditions Contractual
Sea state
No waves
In practice: Beufort 1 (Wave height 0.1 m)
Wind
No wind
In practice: Beufort 2 (Wind speed 6 knots)
Water depth h
Deep,
In practice: h 3 B TM and h 2.75VS g
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Current
No current
No practical limit for when corrections are made. Use of double runs
means that corrections are always included
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Correction of trial results
When trial conditions are not fulfilled corrections must be
made
Typical corrections:
Draught interpolation in model test results on two draughts
Wind calculation of wind resistance using empirical drag coef. or
results from wind tunnel tests
Shallow water empirical formulas
Waves calculation of added wave resistance and speed loss
Standards for how corrections shall be performed:
ISO 15016 Guidelines for the assessment of speed and power
ITTC Recommended procedure 7.5-04-01-01.2 Analysis of
Speed/Power Trials Data
STAWAVE by Marin
Comes with a free software package for performing the analysis
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ISO 15016 correction flow chart
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ISO 15016 correction method
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IMO Energy Efficiency Design Index -
EEDI
Increases the need for standardized trial and correction
procedures
The speed at 75% MCR in calm water must be accurately
determined
Now longer just a matter for yard and ship owner
Shall be approved by classification society
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Speed measurement
Speed over ground and Speed through water
Timing a measured mile
the old-fashioned way, only applicable to dedicated speed trials
Gives speed over ground
GPS
The obvious choice, always used
Gives speed over ground
Speed log
Device to measure speed through water
Always installed on ships
Doppler log is most common on large ships
Measures speed at about 10 m below bottom, close to bow
The accuracy is questionable!
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Measurement of shaft power
Strain gauges glued directly to the shaft
Calibration factor must be calculated, so shaft dimensions and
material properties must be known exactly
Tachometer to measure shaft speed
Commercial power meters
Made for permanent installation
The best, but most expensive alternative
Poor, but cheap alternatives are
fuel rack measurements (measurement of fuel consumption,
combined with supplier data for fuel quality)
measurement of cylinder pressure (used on large, slow speed
engines)
For diesel-electric drive-trains, the frequency converter (drive)
will usually be able to output information about power supplied to
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Shaft measurements
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Optical thrust and torque measurement
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Bollard pull test
2x460 kW
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Maneuvering trials
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Types of Ship Maneuvers
IMO standard maneuvers:
Zig-zag tests
10/ 10 to both sides
20/ 20 to both sides
Turning circle test
35 rudder angle
Full astern stopping test
Additional maneuvers:
Spiral test
Reverse spiral test
Pull-out maneuver
normally added at the end of a turning test
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Zig-zag test
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Test 2011: 20-20 zig zag
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Turning circle
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Testing of position-keeping ability and
thruster performance at zero speed
Important for vessels that have requirements to Dynamic
Positioning performance
No standard tests or commonly recognised procedures
There is a need for development of standardized tests and analysis
procedures for this purpose
A way to characterise thruster performance at zero speed:
Run the thrusters in different combinations (one by one, and in
specific combination) for a short time
Measure the acceleration of the ship in the horisontal plane
Compute the impulse required to create the acceleration
Compare the effective impulse with the impulse provided by the
thruster(s) to arrive at a kind of efficiency
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Measurements environmental conditions
Water depth
Echo sounder (ship instrument) or nautical charts
Water quality
Temperature: Cooling water intake temperature can be used
Density: From nautical charts or density measurements
Wind
Velocity and direction from anemometer
A separate, calibrated instrument is preferable
Watch out for influence of superstructure on the measurement
Current
Nautical charts and tables
the difference in speed between double runs
a 360 turning test at low speed
The difference between log speed and GPS speed
often, one doesnt trust the speed log sufficiently for this purpose
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Wave measurements
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Bow-mounted altimeter
SM - 094
SM - 055
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Using the ship as wave buoy
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Beufort wind scale with related sea conditions
Sea Description term Wind sp. [knots] Wave height [m] S
Beufort state Wind Wave min max Probable Max D
0 0 Calm Calm 0 1 0 0c
1 0 Light air Ripples 1 3 0.1 0.1 R
2 1 Light breeze Small wavelets 3 6 0.2 0.3 S
3 2 Gentle breeze Large wavelets 6 10 0.6 1L
4 3 Moderate breeze Small waves 10 16 1 1.5 S
5 4 Fresh breeze Moderate waves 16 21 2 2.5 M
6 5 Strong breeze Large waves 21 27 3 4L
7 6 Near gale Large waves 27 33 4 5.5 S
8 7 Gale Moderately high waves 33 40 6 7.5 M
9 8 Strong gale High waves 40 47 7 10 H
10 9 Storm Very high waves 47 55 9 12.5 V
11 9 Violent storm Exceptionally high waves 55 63 11.5 16 E
12 9 Hurricane Exceptionally high waves 63 71 14 16 A
13 9 Hurricane Exceptionally high waves 71 80 >14 >16
14 9 Hurricane Exceptionally high waves 80 89 >14 >16
38 15 9 Hurricane Exceptionally high waves 89 99 >14 >16
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Illustrations of Beufort wind (and wave) scale
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
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Hindcast data
Information about wave and wind condition in the past
Data collected by meteorological institutes
From wave buoys, weather stations, satellites, observations
Many different sources
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECMWF
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration www.noaa.gov
is the main source
Many different applications are using their open data
From hindcast data you can get information about sea state
and wind in your area
You can of course not get wave elevation time series!
Localized information for the Norwegian coast:
Norkyst 800 http://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/fou-
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hi/norkyst800m-1h/catalog.html
http://www.ecmwf.int/
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Ocean current
Important to correct speed-power related measurements for
the effect of current
Dedicated speed trials aim at cancelling the effect of
current by using double runs
For ship monitoring (monitoring performance during normal
operation) this is not an option
Direct measurement possible by using buoys
Not a practical solution for ship monitoring!
If accurate speed-through-water measurement on the ship
was available, problem would be solved, but it isnt!
Hindcast data available from OSCAR Ocean Surface
Current Analyses Real-time
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Measurement of motions
Accelerations: Conventional accelerometers
Angles: Gyros, compass, accelerometers
Rate gyro to measure rate of change of angles
Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)
Consists of a number of accelerometers built into one compact unit
Gives out accelerations, velocities and motions at any point
Konsberg Seatex MRU is a good example of a commercial IMU
Kongsberg Seapath
Combination of DGPS and IMU for accurate position
measurement
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Kongsberg Seatex MRU 5+
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Kongsberg Seapath 330
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Measurement of forces:
Hull Monitoring
Hull Monitoring System:
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Rolls-Royce Health and Monitoring
System - HEMOS
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Performance monitoring
Typical merchant ship application:
To monitor the development of speed and fuel consumption
over time, in order to detect need for maintenance
Challenges:
Monitoring and correcting for environmental conditions
Waves, wind, water temperature
Accurate measurement of shaft power and speed through water
Measuring and correcting for loading condition
Data processing
Setting-up and running automatic data transmission
Many other types of performance monitoring coming up
Ref. Rolls-Royce HeMOS system
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Propeller Cavitation
Observations
2. generation borescope
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Source: marin.nl
1. generation borescope
Sample picture from full scale propeller cavitation observation
Summary:
Types of tests
How to perform and correct speed trials
Wave monitoring
Measurement
Observations
Motion measurement
Hull monitoring
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Propeller cavitation observations