Abstract for 23rd IWWWFB, Jeju, Korea, 2008 Some aspects of whipping response of container ships

Whipping is usually defined as a transient hydroelastic ship structural response due to impulsive loading such as slamming, green water, underwater explosion, etc. Here we concentrate on the slamming induced whipping. Slamming induced whipping is observed both in experiments and in full scale measurements for any kind of ships as far as they encounter heavy seas in which the slamming type of loading is likel