AN ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR TANKERS

The aim of this paper is to initiate an alternative design for tankers. The target of this investigation is to create a new structural arrangement for the double hull region of the tanker, using corrugated plates after replacing all the secondary support members such as longitudinals, floors, intercostal girders, brackets, stringers, stiffeners, frames, angle clips, bounding bars etc. This work has been mainly influenced to generate a shape with easy accessibility, well visibility and less complication to fabrication, since this portion of vessel is really congested for inspection and maintenance. However, this study is predominantly focused on the calculations of thicknesses and section modulii of the proposed corrugated plates and comparison with the required section modulii for a model vessel in the same region according to the classification rules. All the calculations have been carried out according to the “Common Structural Rules For Double Hull Oi