ABSTRACT
Maximum values of the vertical still water bending moment are obtained and compared with intact values and the ones from a quasi-static solution to the motions with unitary discharge coefficient distribution at the damage openings. This chapter presents a study of the transient still water vertical loads progression throughout the flooding process for a shuttle tanker in full load condition, which is damaged amidships. Collisions are still a relatively common phenomenon at sea despite all the technology developed in auxiliary systems to avoid these and have larger incident where the traffic is more intense. The lump mass approach is a relatively simple method to be applied to the problem of damage ship dynamic behaviour. The motion of the floodwater centre of volume, at each flooded compartment, is coupled with the ship motions by considering it as the application point of a concentrated mass, which is intrinsically attached to the ship.
