Author(s)

Morten Lovstad and Simon Hojby Behrens-Nielsen

Abstract

New tools open up possibilities for improvement of the prevailing calculation procedures and acceptance criteria used by the Class Societies. DNV's criteria have since early 1970's incorporated state-of-the-art computational methods for hull assessment, such as direct loads and stress response calculations using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Such methods, also known as first-principle calculations, have during the 1990's also been adopted as an industry standard by most of the other Class Societies. DNV is now taking the next step, further refining the first-principle basis of our acceptance criteria.

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