Abstract: A formulation is presented for the assessment of the reliability of a local ship hull structure regarding fatigue failure. The potential cracks are considered to occur in the side shell, in ...

Abstract: The present paper adopts a Bayesian approach to update some of the parameters of the probability distributions governing the reliability assessment of maintained floating structures. It is based ...

Abstract: The corrosion wastage of deck plates of ballast and cargo tanks is analyzed based on a nonlinear corrosion model. This model is able to describe an initial period without corrosion due to ...

Abstract: The paper analyzes the fatigue crack growth of knuckle detail typical of tankers. An approach for evaluation of the fatigue life based on fracture mechanics is presented, where a Paris-Erdogan ...