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The Design Of An Articulating Five-Headed In-Water Grooming Tool To Maintain Ships Free Of Fouling, Caglar Erdogan
The Design Of An Articulating Five-Headed In-Water Grooming Tool To Maintain Ships Free Of Fouling, Caglar Erdogan
Theses and Dissertations
Biofouling is a major concern to ship owners. Biofouling increases hull roughness, increasing the frictional resistance and fuel consumption while decreasing maximum speed. Finding a way to maintain hulls free from fouling has, therefore, become a research challenge for scientists and engineers. Grooming has been proposed as a novel method for controlling fouling (Tribou and Swain 2010). It refers to the regular proactive light cleaning to maintain the hull free of fouling with minimal impact to ship coatings. The purpose of this thesis is to design, build, and deploy a compliant multiheaded grooming tool which utilized five polypropylene vertically rotating …
Quantification Of Frictional Drag Due To Biofouling On In-Service Ships, John Travis Hunsucker
Quantification Of Frictional Drag Due To Biofouling On In-Service Ships, John Travis Hunsucker
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research was to improve the quantification of frictional drag due to biofouling on in-service ships by advancing the knowledge and methodology used to study the interactions between fouling communities and the surrounding environment. This research examined the influence of hydrodynamic stress on the development and frictional drag of fouling communities that developed on a fouling release coating; investigated the reliability of using ship performance monitoring to detect changes in the hull and propeller condition; and evaluated the feasibility of developing a field deployable instrument capable of measuring the local frictional resistance on a ship hull in …