Loading Condition Calculation Setup

This dialog use three tab sheets, that is a dialog containing three overlapped sheets. By default, on opening the Intact sheet is automatically selected, with the other sheets for specifying Damage and Waves, and Automatic Loading.

This dialog enables you to establish the name, that is the Title, for the individual deadweight loading condition, (hence the name of the icon being singular rather than plural), that is to be created, for example as required in the vessel's Trim and Stability book. The Title that you inputs then becomes the node name that is shown in the Application tree.

Generally a number of different deadweight loading conditions need to be created and analyzed within a ship project and thus you need to replicate this function in the tree by adding the necessary number of nodes having this capability, equal to the anticipated number of deadweight loading conditions, and then providing each with a unique title.

It is to be noted that some items in these lists may not be selected for a particular deadweight condition and may thus seem to be redundant. However by creating a number of possible groups, representing both fixed weight and compartments conditions, in a systematic and integrated manner and then by simple Copy commands sharing such data between a number of Loading Condition dialogs, followed by local selection and edit if required, expedites the overall process.

You are presented with Add, Delete, Copy and Edit buttons for both Fixed Weights and Load Groups. you can also change the name of any Fixed Weight or Load Group simply by selecting it in the table and typing a new name.

If you select the Container load drop-down menu, then he is presented with a list of names of specific container on-board loading conditions, that he will have established earlier, and from which he can select the single appropriate active set. If none have been created then nothing will appear.

There is also a BM/SF Limits drop-down menu, where you can select any of the previously defined Bending Moment & Shear Force conditions. If none have been defined then nothing will appear.

There are also check boxes, so that you can Check Stability criteria, Report Critical KG's, Set TCG=0, Calculate Long.(longitudinal) Strength and Vessel is Submerged. These items will then also appear in the subsequent report output.

The Try button will make Calc calculate the hydrostatic values, as shown in the table on the left hand side, for the current loading condition, so that you can check if the Loading Condition defined is suitable for further progress.