Lecture notes

This page contains links to most presentations held during the lectures. At the start of the semester, this page contains the presentations given the previous year. The presentations will be updated with this years presentations as we go along. The presentations are distributed as handouts printed to PDF with two slides on each sheet. You are NOT allowed to redistribute the presentations.

• Introduction
• Overview of model testing facilities
• Instrumentation
• Data acquisition (Torgeir Wahl)
• Introduction to LabView (Torgeir Wahl)
• Scaling_Laws
• Physical Modelling of Structures
• Generation of Environment
• Conventional ship testing
• Predicting speed and power requirements from model tests
• Reporting of model tests
• Model testing of offshore structures
• Seakeeping model tests
• Data analysis
• Time-series analysis with Matlab - presentation by Jose
• Time-series analysis with Matlab - examples (zip-file)
• Uncertainty Analysis
• Discussion of different error sources in hydrodynamic model tests
• Comparison of model test results with calculations
• Full scale measurements
• Writing a specification for a model test

Written lecture notes (kompendium) is available from the institute reception - Marit Nordtiller.