Optimum design of a ship for the reduction of structural response induced by water impact

Slamming indicates the impact of a solid body entering a liquid surface at high speed. Since a long time this problems attracted the interest of the technical and scientific community in the field of aeronautics and ship design. In this paper an approach based on a simple but effective hydrodynamic force analysis coupled with two elastic models describing the impact of different structures of practical interest is proposed. The analysis, based on the Parseval equality, indicates a way to select the best mechanical parameters of the impacting system mitigating the effects on the structural response