To help investigate the July 26, 2006, Crown Princess heeling casualty, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has developed a method to extract forces and moments acting on a ship from voyage data recorder (VDR) and other sources of recorded motion parameters. Other parameters can also be extracted with this simulation technique.

Keywords:
air transportation, side force, modeling & simulation, safety board, us government, ship, passenger transportation, marine transportation, sideslip, variation
Subjects:
HSSE & Social Responsibility Management
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2008. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
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