What is it about?
This paper quantifies ship structural fatigue damage along the routes: Suez Canal transit versus the Cape of Good Hope. Several voyages of an Aframax tanker along the sea routes are selected and evaluated for fatigue damage using a route-specific spectral fatigue damage assessment approach. Fatigue accumulation during the tanker lifetime, for each trade route, is computed as the sum of all the encountered sea states having caused fatigue damage along the route. Results are presented as fatigue damage and fatigue life for each trade route.
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Why is it important?
Results show that in addition to saving in distance and time, less accumulated fatigue is achieved along the Suez Canal route.
Perspectives
The life time of a ship may be preserved if ship is properly used along Suez Canal route.
Mohamed Essallamy
Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport
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This page is a summary of: Spectral fatigue analyses comparison study: Suez Canal vs. Cape of Good Hope Arab Academy for Science, Technologies and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20464177.2019.1572703.
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