1st Edition

Ship Collision Analysis Proceedings of the international symposium on advances in ship collision analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-13 May 1998

Edited By Henrik Gluver, Dan Olsen Copyright 1998
228 Pages
by CRC Press

228 Pages
by Routledge

Accident records show that sooner or later hindrances near a waterway will be hit by ships, be it navigation marks, bridge structures, reefs or shallows. With this background modelling and analysis of ship collisions to bridge structures have an increasing importance as the basis for rational decision making in connection with planning, design and construction of bridges over navigable waters.... Read more

Preface

Organization

Ship Collision to Bridges

The Mechanics of Ship Collision

Risk Analysis and Risk Acceptance

Structural Response

Collision Prevention

Protective Measures

Author Index

Biography

Henrik Gluver