Analysis of structural damage on the struck ship under side collision scenario

Abstract The occurrence of impact needs to be predicted for various cases as it mostly delivers negative to target object and environment. In marine structure, this phenomenon has distributed numerous damages to involved objects, such as can be found in tragedy of the Estonia in 1994. This disaster led to a reassessment of the safety of passenger ships in many country. During impact both of structural and material aspects contributes to responses in form of energy, force, and damage. In present work, consideration of the both aspects would be considered in preparation, analysis, and discussion, to evaluate contribution of considered aspects on failure characteristic. A target subjected to impact load in form of collision so called struck ship which had different hull configuration would be used in analysis as structural behaviour during and after hull structure of the struck ship was penetrated by the striking ship would be observed. In material level, analyses were conducted with applying different mechanical properties on the side structure. The results indicated that the tearing of inner hull was avoided due to size of double hull structure. This condition provided better safety but lower ship capacity. In other hand, strength characteristic of material was proofed dominate difference of internal energy. Finally, the influences of material strength, failure strain, and hardening parameter were evaluated and summarized.