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General HydroStatics
Ship Stability Software |
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Command of the Week
(New or interesting aspects of GHS that you may not know about) |
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SPONSON (review)
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SPONSON is a Part Maker statement available within the CREATE command.
It is unique because the resulting shape is based on an existing hull shape and a series of width@length value parameters.
Here is a cross-section of our classic Fishing Vessel hull. |
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One possible remedy for insufficient stability is to make the hull wider with the addition of sponsons.
It takes only a few lines in a run file to add a sponson component to the hull.
Here is an example: |
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READ FV.GF ENTER PM CREATE HULL\SPONSON.C SPONSON = .1@21.175F, 2@15.4F, 2@26.95A, .1@32.725A SPACING 3 / WRITE FV-SPON.GF QUIT PM |
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| For the final design there will be some adjustments, of course, but being able to quickly evaluate the stability impact of various sponson widths might be a time saver. |
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