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  1. femarie

    Welding:

    Use Lloyd's Register weld factor 0.44 to 25 mm , this gives a double fillet 11 mm (throat!).As ship plan approval surveyor I have seen larger fillets in seafastenings.. regards, Femarie
  2. femarie

    Marine Crane Foundaion

    Use the Lloyd's Register Rules for Lifting Appliances in a Marine Environment which contains stress criteria for crane seatings : a) assuming that your cranemoment includes all duty and hoisting factors apply 50% of the yield stress of the pedestal as criterium b) ensure that the pedestal...
  3. femarie

    seastates

    Sometimes a seastate is defined by significant wave height only without a significant period.Can anybody comment ?
  4. femarie

    spreader and lifting beams

    I did.What's the question ?
  5. femarie

    Reduce Load Factors for simultaneous wind and waves loads?

    Just take 0.5 g athwartships (ay), o.2 g in longitudinal direction(ax) and 0.3 g =az(total 1.3) vertically. Applied these factors before when transporting crawler cranes on barges from europe to north africa. In case of high deck cargoes use 0.65 g for ay. regards, Femarie
  6. femarie

    angle of repose wet/dampened sand

    I am presently involved with the verification of steel bulkheads in seagoing ships - so called hopper dredgers-designed for the carriage of dampened sand.What angle of repose can I use to calculate the sand pressures against these bulkheads ?Any advice welcome. Femarie
  7. femarie

    How to apply shear load and moment on thin-walled cylinder FEM

    I would fit RBE-type elements as well.Have done this various times to apply crane loads to cylindrical pedestals. femarie

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