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License and Copyright..........................................................................................................iii Contents................................................................................................................................v About this Manual ................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 Introduction..........................................................................................................3 Chapter 2 Quickstart.............................................................................................................7 Upright Hydrostatics Quickstart ..............................................................................8 Large Angle Stability Quickstart .............................................................................9 Equilibrium Condition Quickstart..........................................................................10 Specified Condition Quickstart ..............................................................................11 KN Values Quickstart ............................................................................................12 Limiting KG Quickstart .........................................................................................13 Floodable Length Quickstart..................................................................................14 Longitudinal Strength Quickstart ...........................................................................15 Tank Calibrations Quickstart .................................................................................16 Chapter 3 Using Hydromax..................................................................................................17 Getting Started .......................................................................................................18 Installing Hydromax ....................................................................................18 Starting Hydromax.......................................................................................18 Hydromax Model ...................................................................................................19 Preparing a Design in Maxsurf ....................................................................19 Opening a New Design ................................................................................22 Opening an Existing Hydromax Design File ...............................................23 Updating the Hydromax Model ...................................................................25 Hydromax Sections Forming .......................................................................25 Checking the Hydromax model ...................................................................29 Setting Initial Conditions .............................................................................31 Working with Loadcases..............................................................................33 Modelling Compartments ............................................................................40 Forming Compartments ...............................................................................52 Compartment Types.....................................................................................55 Sounding Pipes ............................................................................................57 Damage Case Definition ..............................................................................58 Key Points (e.g. Down Flooding Points) .....................................................60 Margin Line Points ......................................................................................62 Modulus Points and Allowable Shears and Moments .................................63 Floodable Length Bulkheads .......................................................................63 Stability Criteria...........................................................................................63 Analysis Types .......................................................................................................64 Upright Hydrostatics....................................................................................65 Large Angle Stability...................................................................................67 Equilibrium Analysis ...................................................................................70 Specified Conditions....................................................................................73 KN Values Analysis.....................................................................................75 Limiting KG.................................................................................................78 Floodable Length .........................................................................................81 Longitudinal Strength ..................................................................................84 Tank Calibrations.........................................................................................87 Starting and Stopping Analyses ...................................................................90 Batch Analysis .............................................................................................91 Analysis Settings....................................................................................................94
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Heel..............................................................................................................94 Trim .............................................................................................................95 Draft .............................................................................................................96 Displacement ...............................................................................................96 Specified Conditions....................................................................................97 Permeability .................................................................................................97 Tolerances....................................................................................................98 Analysis Environment Options ............................................................................100 Fluids Analysis Methods ...........................................................................100 Density of Fluids........................................................................................101 Waveform ..................................................................................................103 Grounding ..................................................................................................104 Hog and Sag...............................................................................................105 Stability Criteria.........................................................................................106 Damage ......................................................................................................106 Analysis Output....................................................................................................107 Reporting ...................................................................................................108 Copying & Printing....................................................................................109 Select View from Analysis Data................................................................110 Saving the Hydromax Design ....................................................................111 Exporting ...................................................................................................112 Chapter 4 Stability Criteria...................................................................................................113 Criteria Concepts..................................................................................................114 Criteria Procedures...............................................................................................118 Starting the Criteria dialog.........................................................................118 Resizing the Criteria dialog .......................................................................119 Working with Criteria ................................................................................119 Editing Criteria ..........................................................................................122 Working with Criteria Libraries.................................................................123 Criteria Results.....................................................................................................126 Nomenclature .......................................................................................................128 Definitions of GZ curve features ...............................................................128 Glossary .....................................................................................................131 Chapter 5 Hydromax Reference ...........................................................................................133 Windows ..............................................................................................................134 View Window ............................................................................................134 Loadcase Window......................................................................................135 Damage Window .......................................................................................136 Input Window ............................................................................................136 Results Window.........................................................................................138 Graph Window...........................................................................................140 Report Window..........................................................................................143 Toolbars ...............................................................................................................147 Menus...................................................................................................................149 File Menu...................................................................................................149 Edit Menu ..................................................................................................150 View Menu ................................................................................................152 Analysis Menu ...........................................................................................153 Case Menu .................................................................................................156 Display Menu.............................................................................................157 Window Menu ...........................................................................................159 Help Menu .................................................................................................159 Appendix A Calculation of Form Parameters .....................................................................161
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Definition and calculation of form parameters ..........................................161 Potential for errors in hydrostatic calculations ..........................................168 Reference Designs .....................................................................................169 Reference Calculations ..............................................................................170 Appendix B Criteria file format ..........................................................................................172 Appendix C Criteria Help....................................................................................................176 Parent Heeling Arms ............................................................................................177 Heeling Arm Definition .............................................................................177 Parent Heeling Moments......................................................................................184 Parent Stability Criteria........................................................................................186 Criteria at Equilibrium ...............................................................................186 GZ Curve Criteria (non-heeling arm) ........................................................187 Heeling arm criteria (xRef)........................................................................203 Heeling arm criteria ...................................................................................203 Multiple heeling arm criteria .....................................................................220 Heeling arm, combined criteria..................................................................226 Other combined criteria .............................................................................230 Appendix D Specific Criteria ...............................................................................................233 Heeling arms for specific criteria - Note on unit conversion .....................233 ISO 12217: Small craft stability and buoyancy assessment and categorisation. ............................................................................................239 Appendix E Reference Tables .............................................................................................242 File Extension Reference Table .................................................................242 Analysis settings reference table................................................................243 Index.....................................................................................................................................244
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction
Hydromax is a hydrostatics, stability and longitudinal strength program specifically designed to work with Maxsurf. Hydromax adds extra information to the Maxsurf surface model. This includes: compartments and key points such as downflooding points and margin line. Hydromax analysis tools enable a wide range of hydrostatic and stability characteristics to be determined for your Maxsurf design. A number of environmental setting options and modifiers add further analysis capabilities to Hydromax. Hydromax is designed in a logical manner, which makes it easy to use. The following steps are followed when performing an analysis:
Input model Analysis type selection Analysis settings Environment options Criteria specification and selection Run analysis Output
Hydromax operates in the same graphical environment as Maxsurf; the model can be displayed using hull contour lines, rendering or transparent rendering. This allows visual checking of compartments and shows the orientation of the vessel during analysis.
Input Model
Maxsurf design files may be opened directly into Hydromax, eliminating the need for time-consuming digitising of drawings or hand typing of offsets. This direct transfer preserves the three-dimensional accuracy of the Maxsurf model. Tanks can be defined and calibrated for capacity, centre of gravity and free surface moment. Tanks and compartments can be flooded for the purpose of calculating the effects of damage. A number of loadcases can be created. The loadcase allows static weights and tankfillings to be specified and calculates the corresponding weights and centres of gravity as well as the total weight and centre of gravity of the vessel under the specified loading condition. Other input consists of: tank sounding pipes; key points, such as downflooding points, immersion and embarkation points; margin lines and section modulus.
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Although common analysis settings are used where possible, different analyses may require different settings. For example: the upright hydrostatics analysis simply requires a range of drafts; whereas the longitudinal strength analysis requires a detailed load distribution. The analysis settings for each analysis type are explained in detail in the analysis synopsis below.
Analysis Settings
The analysis settings describe the condition of the vessel to be tested. For example, a range of drafts in the case of upright hydrostatics, or a range of heel angles for a large angle stability analysis. The following analysis settings are available:
Heel Trim Draft Displacement Permeability Specified conditions
The analysis settings are specified prior to running the analysis. Settings that are not relevant to the selected analysis type are greyed out in the Analysis menu.
Environment Options
Environmental options are modifiers that may be applied to the model or its environment that will affect the results of the hydrostatic analysis. Depending on the analysis being performed, different environmental options may be applied to the Hydromax:
Type of Fluid Simulation Density (of fluids) Wave forms Grounding Hogging and sagging Intact and Damage condition
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Hydromax has the capability to calculate compliance with a wide range of stability criteria. These criteria are either derived from the properties of the stability curve calculated from a Large Angle Stability analysis or from the vessels orientation and stability properties calculated from an Equilibrium analysis. Limiting KG and Floodable length analyses also use stability criteria. Hydromax has an extensive range of stability criteria to determine compliance with a wide range of international stability regulations. In addition, Hydromax has a generic set of parent criteria from which virtually any stability criterion can be customized.
Output
Views of the hull are shown for each stage of the analysis, complete with immersed sectional areas and actual waterlines. The centres of flotation, gravity and buoyancy are also displayed. Heeled and trimmed hullforms and water plane shapes may be printed. Results are stored and may be reviewed at any time, either in tabular form, or as graphs of the various parameters across the full range of calculation. All results are accumulated in the Report window (which can be saved, copied and printed), or output directly to a Word document. The criteria checks are summarised in tables listing the status (pass/fail) of each criterion. The criterion settings and intermediate calculation data may also be displayed if required. For a brief overview of the different analysis that Hydromax has available, continue reading Chapter 2 Quickstart.
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Chapter 2 Quickstart
Chapter 2 Quickstart
This chapter will briefly describe each analysis type and its output. For each analysis type, a list of the required settings as well as the available environment options is given. Hydromax contains the following analysis types
Upright Hydrostatics Large Angle Stability Equilibrium Condition Specified Condition KN Values Limiting KG Quickstart Floodable Length Longitudinal Strength Tank Calibrations