Title: Modelling and implementation of an intelligent stowage simulator for container ships

Authors: Qingwu Wang; Jian Zhao; Lin Ma

Addresses: Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, China ' Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, China ' Navigation College, Dalian Maritime University, China

Abstract: To solve the problems that conventional loading master for container ship merely provides the stability, strength, floating condition, etc. a comprehensive intelligent simulator was worked out, which can also obtain the amount of restowage containers, verify segregation scheme for dangerous containers, etc. BLOCK algorithm is proposed for the first time for restowage problems with respect to the containers on deck jam that in hold and all in hold or on deck. In the case of all in hold or on deck, independent stowage and mix stowage are studied in some detail. A fast and effective algorithm is also put forward to perform the segregation verifying. At last, the above proposed algorithms are verified by the loading condition from the loading manual.

Keywords: container ship; intelligent stowage simulator; restowage; segregations; stability; strength; floating condition; BLOCK algorithm.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2020.107324

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2020 Vol.15 No.3, pp.201 - 212

Received: 30 Jul 2018
Accepted: 10 Apr 2019
Published online: 15 May 2020 *

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