Tank Plan

The purpose of this is to enable a user to create, within the report, a simple drawing that illustrates the tank and hold arrangement of the vessel, as defined within the input geometry model. The illustration can contain various profile, plan and end elevation/transverse section views at sufficient user-defined sections to clearly show, by their assigned names, the various compartments, tanks, holds and other spaces that are subsequently referred to within the report. Again it is to be noted that the Calc User cannot change the hull and/or compartmentation geometry in any way, however he can re-name any of the compartments and change their structural permeability.

In addition to creating a tank plan drawing, Calc also produces tabulated data for each compartment, grouped according to functional type, and giving total volume and total volume centre-of-gravity information for each tank/compartment. Again this information is typically included within, for example, a Trim and Stability booklet. This function also compiles a set of tables that list the internal surfaces that bound tanks and holds, grouped into transverse bulkheads, decks, and longitudinal bulkheads.

In order to produce the tank plan and the associated tables, you are to select the General Particulars - Tank Plan icon and to ensure that all input data is complete and current. As the hull compartmentation data is that which is given within the original input geometry model, the user input dialog consists of identifying the specific compartments that are to be included within the plan, selecting the required views, that is profile, deck, or section views, and providing the coordinate at which each orthogonal view is to be constructed.

The Tank Plan that is created is also used as the basis for developing similar Loading Diagrams - the Typical Tank Plan image illustrates a typical orthogonal Tank Plan created within Calc.

Tank Calibration is reviewed in Tank Calibrations.

Typical Tank Plan.