| Summary: | A floating quay container terminal is used for loading or unloading from container ships from
both sides of a floating quay. The side-by-side Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) offloading
operation from floating terminals to LNG carriers is very similar to that from super-container
ships to floating quay-walls. The hydrodynamic interaction effects among a fixed quay,
container ship and floating quay, which are parallel to one another, are investigated. The
three body side-by-side arrangement is compared with the individual freely floating body in
the absence/presence of the fixed quay to identify the interaction effects. Hydrodynamic
coefficients of the interacting bodies are obtained using a three dimensional constant panel
method, WAMIT. Using a vessel-lines coupled dynamic analysis computer program
WINPOST, the relative motion between floating quay and container ship is simulated in time
domain. It is assumed in the present study that the floating quay is positioned by a dolphin
mooring system. This analysis provides the relative motion among container ship, fixed and
floating quay to ascertain that container loading and offloading can be performed in the
severe wave condition without any problem.
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