Effects of Short Crested Seas on the Motions of a Trolley Interfact for Ship-to-Ship Cargo Transfer

This thesis sets out to explore the effects on the dynamic response of a hybrid trolley system, employed in ship to shore cargo transfer operating in a realistic short crested irregular seaway. Compared to the multi-directional long crested waves, the multi-directional nature of short crested waves enhances the realism of the modeling. A standard cosine-squared spreading law was added to the two-parameter Bretschneider spectrum. The results provide added data on the coupled system response in all directions and moderate any overestimation that may be derived from simply using long crested waves.Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA Dept of Mechanical Engineering is the author of 'Effects of Short Crested Seas on the Motions of a Trolley Interfact for Ship-to-Ship Cargo Transfer', published 2003 under ISBN 9781423512974 and ISBN 1423512979.