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Introduction

Royal IHC is leading supplier of maritime technology and expert craftsmanship. Royal IHC delivers equipment, vessels and services which are reliable, integrated solutions to improve operational efficiency and allow for more sustainable solutions.

Background

Royal IHC has been working on the basic design and built of a next generation reel lay vessel capable of installing complex flowlines in water depths up to 3,000 m. Most pipe lay vessels have the tower amidships. This design has the tower fully on the aftship. This results in an atypical weight distribution influencing the loading of the vessel.

Assignment

Investigate the impact of the location of the pipe lay tower on the wave bending moment and the weight distribution induced dynamic bending moment.

Rule wave bending moment does not separately account for the contributions of dynamic wave bending moment and static wave bend...