ABSTRACT
The structural design of ships concerning grounding and collision requires an accurate prediction of the damage of stiffened plates under impact loading. Experimental studies on laterally loaded panels have been conducted in order to derive analytical expressions. For example, Hagiwara et al. (1983) proposed a method for predicting low-energy ship collision damage based on combined experiments, which determined the initiation of plate fracture, the effects of structural details and the deformation of a typical ship panel. Manolakos and Mamalis (1985) used a rigid plastic analysis for predicting the structural behaviour of longitudinally framed shell plating of struck vessel during a minor oblique collision. Cho and Lee (2009) developed a simplified method for the prediction of the extent of damage on stiffened plates due to lateral collisions.
