Assessment of life raft performance in regular waves using 1:7 scaled models

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/8896281
Author	Search for: Power, J.; Search for: Simões Ré, A.; Search for: Mak, L. M.
Sponsor	Search for: Search and Rescue New Initiative Fund (SAR-NIF)
Format	Text, Technical Report
Subject	liferaft; model; RAO; tow force
Abstract	The purpose of this report is to examine the operational performance of 1:7 scalemodels of a commercially available 16 and 42-person capacity life rafts under a variety of controlled weather conditions. The use of models allows us to test the performance of the life rafts in weather conditions that would be too extreme to test in full scale, open water trials. The goal for this project is that the collected information can be used to fill in the current knowledge gap, which would benefit the marine operators, the regulatory bodies, the search and rescue planners, the training providers, and the manufactures in developing news designs.
Publication date	2006
Publisher	National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Ocean Technology
Place	St. John's, Newfoundland
Series	Technical Report (National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Ocean Technology), no. TR-2006-09 (2006).
Language	English
NRC number	NRC-IOT-6325
NPARC number	8896281
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Record identifier	9eb93426-6c38-48b9-9dd0-dbc21bd55491
Record created	2009-04-22
Record modified	2022-09-27

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