ABSTRACT
The numerical analyses in this study are carried on a very large bulk carrier ship of 162000 tdw, with the hull offset lines presented in Figure 1 and the main dimensions in Table 1.
The bulk carrier hull structure material is selected according to Germanischer Lloyd’s Rules (GL 2013), being considered isotropic steel
1 INTRODUCTION
In the last years the shipbuilding industry became a very competitive field, so that the ship design companies are required from the early design steps to carry out the assessment of the ship hull strength including also the fatigue based preliminary ship service life prediction (DNV 2008, GL 2004, 2013, IACS 2012, Lotsberg 2006, Jang & Hong 2009).
