5003 Lectures - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

E5003 - Ship Structures I 197
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Topic 19: Shear Flow in adjacent Closed Cells
In a double sided or double bottom vessel there are
often many adjacent closed cells. Adjacent close
cells present an added complexity when solving
shear flow. The complexity is that the corrective
shear flow in once cell causes a corrective slip in
the adjacent cell, because of the common side.
When we add a corrective shear flow in one loop
we can't help but get some flow and slip in
adjacent loops.
Consequently, in order to ensure that we have no
net slip at each and all cuts we need to satisfy a
set of coupled equations. For example, in the case
of two adjacent loops we have;