Bureau Veritas sharpens ice tools

摘要

Bureau veritas has developed new 'high-level' tools to assess cargo sloshing in ice conditions as well as an advanced probabilistic method for assessing ice loads on structure. A new module for the society's IceSTAR ice load calculation tool will calculate the kinetic energy imparted to the cargo by a collision with ice. The kinematics derived from IceSTAR can then be used together with CFD analysis to determine how the cargo will slosh and the extra loads this will impose on the ship's structure and the LNG containment system.