<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/3730" mdate="2013-01-20 00:00:00"> <author>Alessandro A. Zizzari and Francesca Calabrese and Giovanni Indiveri and Andrea Coraddu and Diego Villa</author> <title>A Comparative Study on Different Approaches to Evaluate Ship Equilibrium Point</title> <pages>55 - 59</pages> <year>2013</year> <volume>7</volume> <number>1</number> <journal>International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3730</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/73</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>The aim of this paper is to present a comparative study on two different methods for the evaluation of the equilibrium point of a ship, core issue for designing an On Board Stability System (OBSS) module that, starting from geometry information of a ship hull, described by a discrete model in a standard format, and the distribution of all weights onboard calculates the ship floating conditions (in draught, heel and trim).</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 73, 2013</index> </article>