Royal Malaysian Navy Ministry of Defence. Malaysia

Abstract

In relation 10 the problems oftne maritime safety, the diversification in ship
types or the growth in ship sizes has enhanced th e significance of
manoeuvrability as one of the fundamental performances of ships. Namely
it has become very important to predict the ship manoeuvrability at the stage
of the initial ship design process. This paper presents a mathematical model
for estimating the ship manoeuvring performance to cope with the
increasing demands for concept ual desig n stage evaluat ion ofsafety in ship
opera tion. The mathematical model developed can be extended fu rther to he
made applicable to various other problems such as low speed manoeuvres,
lateral shif ting stopping manoeuvres.