The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure

Vasileios Karatzas; N. K.  Hjørnet; Hans Otto Holmegaard Kristensen; Christian Berggreen; Jørgen Juncher Jensen

The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure

Vasileios Karatzas
, N. K. Hjørnet
, Hans Otto Holmegaard Kristensen
, Christian Berggreen
, Jørgen Juncher Jensen

Villum Center for Advanced Structural and Material Testing

Niels Hjørnet Yacht Design

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Abstract

As sustainability and climate change have come on the politi-cal agenda, the shipping industry will have to be operating energy efficient ships. An appealing step to achieve this goal is by designing superstructures made out of Fiber Reinforced Plastics (FRP) aiming at the reduction of the ship’s lightship weight. The benefits of a light superstructure become most prominent in large passenger ships, as the superstructures constitute a significant percentage of the lightship. Additional-ly, depending on the size of the ship, the superstructure may tower several decks above the weather deck, affecting the stability of the ship. In this work, the superstructure of a RoPax ferry has been redesigned using composite materials emphasizing the effects on the ship from an operational per-spective. The weight reduction has been calculated for a real-istic average operating condition quantifying the effects on the stability and the fuel consumption of the retrofitted ship com-pared to the original design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016)
Editors	Ulrik Dam Nielsen, Jørgen Juncher Jensen
Number of pages	5
Publisher	Technical University of Denmark
Publication date	2016
ISBN (Electronic)	978-87-7475-473-2
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS'2016) - Hotel Crowne Plaza, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 4 Sept 2016 → 8 Sept 2016 Conference number: 13

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Conference	13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS'2016)
Number	13
Location	Hotel Crowne Plaza
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	04/09/2016 → 08/09/2016

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SDG 13 Climate Action

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Superstructure
Composites
Passenger ship

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Karatzas, V., Hjørnet, N. K., Kristensen, H. O. H., Berggreen, C., & Jensen, J. J. (2016). The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure. In U. Dam Nielsen, & J. Juncher Jensen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016) Technical University of Denmark.

Karatzas, Vasileios ; Hjørnet, N. K. ; Kristensen, Hans Otto Holmegaard et al. / The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure. Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016). editor / Ulrik Dam Nielsen ; Jørgen Juncher Jensen. Technical University of Denmark, 2016.

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Karatzas, V, Hjørnet, NK, Kristensen, HOH, Berggreen, C & Jensen, JJ 2016, The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure. in U Dam Nielsen & J Juncher Jensen (eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016). Technical University of Denmark, 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS'2016), Copenhagen, Denmark, 04/09/2016.

The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure. / Karatzas, Vasileios; Hjørnet, N. K. ; Kristensen, Hans Otto Holmegaard et al.
Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016). ed. / Ulrik Dam Nielsen; Jørgen Juncher Jensen. Technical University of Denmark, 2016.

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Karatzas V, Hjørnet NK, Kristensen HOH, Berggreen C , Jensen JJ. The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure. In Dam Nielsen U, Juncher Jensen J, editors, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’2016). Technical University of Denmark. 2016

The Effects on the Operating Condition of a Passenger Ship Retro-fitted with a Composite Superstructure

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