A STUDY ON SHIP VIBRATION USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

when the beam theory was used to calculate ship hull vibration,greater discrepancies were found between theoretical cal-culations and actual measurements especially at higher modes.Thusthe beam model cannot be considered as a practical one for higher-mode calculations.This paper presents the application of two-dimensional finite element model for the calculation of ship ver-tical vibration.Using the multi-element structural dynamic a-nalysis program DDJ(DL)developed by ourselves,the hull vibra-tion analysis of two ships(vessel A and vessel B)was carriedout on the Model-709 Computer made in the People’s Republic ofChina.The results of the calculation,when compared with actualmeasurements.show that the two-dimensional model is much moreefficient than the traditional beam model.The agreement be-tween the calculations and measurements has been improved greatly,and this discrepancy at the4th·and5th-modes has decreased towithin5%as compared to that of more than20%in the traditionalmodel.Furthermore.the mode