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General

The design and construction of the hull, superstructure, and deckhouses of container carriers and ore carriers are to be based on the applicable requirements of the ABS Rules and Guides. As a supplement to the ABS Rules and Guides, these Guidance Notes provide detailed procedures for assessment of springing and the subsequent structural fatigue damage for container carriers and ore carriers. The procedure is easy to use and can be utilized to make quick estimates of the fatigue damage due to springing at the conceptual design phase and to perform a sensitivity study of its variation with main dimensions and operational profiles. The technical background is based on the direct analysis of hydrodynamic load and structure dynamic response.