TEST TANK TRIALS ON MODELS AND SHIPS’ PROJECTS
If in the preceding article we talked about where large models of ships and watercraft are tested in this magical place where they are studied and analyzed for their behaviour, efficiency, the presence of problems the may well encounter at sea and not only, then we’ll carry on from this point by going to see which are the typical activities carried out in a test tank that we did not mention in the preceding article. Yes, because it is easy enough to understand that evaluating a hull in a test tank or basin according to rigorous standards is not exactly the same as testing water craft at sea as the hull is merely the immersed section which determines only the vessels’ hydrodynamic features. The basic tests carried out in a basin involve towing capacity and consequent drag factors by deploying well built compliant models so that the results
