On 18 February 2022, Thibaut Van Zwijnsvoorde successfully defended his PhD thesis “Modelling the Behaviour of a Moored Ship in Sheltered Waters”. The thesis discusses all parts of the mooring analysis, generating the input, performing time-domain calculations and the interpretation of the output. The mooring analysis was carried out with the software package Vlugmoor, specifically developed by the Maritime Technology Division at Ghent University for Dynamic Mooring Analysis.
Furthermore, tensile tests on mooring ropes performed at Bexco are presented. Passing ship interaction effects in shallow and confined areas have been studied in the model test program PESCA, executed in the Towing Tank for Manoeuvres in Confined Water. These tests are used to build an empirical model to predict passing ship effects in sections with high blockage, as well as to validate the potential, double body, software package Ropes.
