ABSTRACT
When a ship travels in rough seas, it will impact water because of large vertical relative motions between the ship and wave surface. The impulsive pressure is much larger than the wave pressure, and this hydrodynamic impact phenomenon is defined as slamming. According to the position where it occurs, slamming on ships can be roughly categorized as bow bottom slamming, bow flare slamming, bow stem slamming, wet deck slamming, and also stern slamming which is raising attention in recent years (Luo et al. 2007).
