| Author | Search for: McKenna, R. F.; Search for: Paulin, M. J. |
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| Format | Text, Technical Report |
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| Subject | liferaft; drogue; drift; series drogue; breaking waves; steepness |
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| Abstract | The present report documents a test series conducted in the towing tank on life raft drift, towed life raft resistance and towed drogue resistance. These complimented a series of tests conducted by Fleet Technology Limited dealing with the capsize of a 1:7 scale model of a 20 person life raft. Towed resistance experiments conducted on standard drogues at full scale and 1:5, 1:7 and 1:9 scales. Experiments with series drogues (consisting of up to 40 cones in series) were conducted at full scale, at 1:7 scale and for an oversized full scale drogue design. Towed resistance experiments were conducted on a full scale 16 person life raft and on a 1:7 scale model of a 20 person raft. Wind drag experiments were also conducted for a range of canopy orientations relative to the wind direction. Life raft drift experiments were performed with the 1:7 model for 0.35 and 0.75 in regular waves with 1:15 and 1:7 steepness to simulate breaking wave conditions. |
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| Publication date | 1997 |
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| Publisher | National Research Council Canada. Institute for Marine Dynamics |
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| Place | St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada |
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| Language | English |
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| NRC number | NRC-IOT-6013 |
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| NPARC number | 8894838 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | b0148d8b-f209-4dc8-ad41-c9439da91847 |
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| Record created | 2009-04-22 |
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| Record modified | 2025-12-05 |
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