Application of steel sandwich panels to hull structure of two-segment inland navigation passenger ship

This paper presents a concept of hull structure of novel environment-friendly inland navigation and coastal ships for Polish east-west waterways. In compliance with its assumptions the inland navigation passenger ship is designed in the form of two mutually connected segments : a propulsion segment which contains gastronomy and entertainment infrastructure and crew accommodations and an articulated hotel segment. In this paper attention is focused on solutions of the hotel segment of an innovative structure mainly consisted of steel polyurethane-filled sandwich panels. Similar structural solution is intended for the propulsion segment.