TY - JFULL AU - Alessandro A. Zizzari and Francesca Calabrese and Giovanni Indiveri and Andrea Coraddu and Diego Villa PY - 2013/2/ TI - A Comparative Study on Different Approaches to Evaluate Ship Equilibrium Point T2 - International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SP - 54 EP - 59 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3730 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 73, 2013 N2 - 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). ER -