Research on Evaluation System for Ship's Integrated Sailing Performance

The integrated sailing performance is important to the ship design and manufacture. However, it is very hard to be evaluated objectively and reasonably. In this paper the evaluation system of integrated sailing performance of ship's was built which included seakeeping performance, wave loads, speed and stability performance in waves. The main characters were picked out and considering the influence of wave environment to build the evaluation system. AHP method was used to get the weight factors, and then the evaluation system could be built. So, the effects of wave and wind could be considered in the evaluation system. And then the evaluation system would be better than the single performance evaluation system and the evaluation system in calm water. The research of this paper is important to the integrated sailing performance evaluation system and evaluating method, which laid the foundation for the next step in the establishment of the comprehensive navigation performance evaluation equation for the ships in the waves.