Hamburger Schiffbau- Versuchsanstalt GmbH Hamburg Ship Model Basin Ice Technology Department

Brief profile

The Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA) was founded in 1913 and is a non-profit organisation which is supported by 28 German shipyards and ship owners. HSVA is one of the leading facilities in hydrodynamics, marine design and ice technology. The company serves national and international customers with scientific and engineering expertise in the following working areas:

• Resistance and propulsion,
• Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD),
• Seakeeping, manoeuvring and ship trials,
• Propeller, cavitation and hydroacoustics,
• Ice and environmental technology.

• Model tests and numerical calculations for the prediction of resistance and propulsion of ships in open water and in ice,
• Manoeuvring tests and numerical manoeuvring simulation,
• Theoretical and experimental prediction on seaworthiness of ships and offshore structures,
• Ice technology with respect to experimental and numerical ice breaking performance of ships, forces on structures, basic ice mechanics and full scale tests,
• Environmental research on oil spills in open water and in ice.

Ice model test with an icebreaker in HSVA's Large Ice Model Basin
 

Image courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA

Facilities

For these purposes four major test facilities with sophisticated measuring equipment are available:

• Large Towing Tank of 300 m in length, 18 m width and 6 m depth equipped with 8.2 m/s towing carriage, a double flap wave maker and a computerised planar motion carriage (CPMC) for manoeuvring tests.

• HYKAT a large hydrodynamic and cavitation tunnel with a 11 m long test area of 2.8 m x 1.6 m cross-section allowing flow velocity up to 12 m/s.

•  Large Ice Model Basin of 78 m in length, 10 m width and 2.5 m (partially 5.0 m) depth with towing carriage and adjustable shallow water bottom capable temperatures down to -25°C.

•  Arctic Environmental Test Basin of 30 m in length, 6 m width and 1.5 m depth with the capability simulating circulating currents, waves and ice.

Ice model tests of the offshore jacket platform JZ-20 in the Large Ice Model Basin
 

Image courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA

Involvement in and contributions to the STRICE project

HSVA is the co-ordinator of the STRICE project and responsible for it's management assigned (WP 0).

The institution leads the work packages Measurement of ice forces and ice force effecting parameters (WP 4.1), Determination of ice mechanical properties Part I: Field tests (WP 4.2), Data processing and evaluation of results (WP 5) and  Reporting and dissemination of results (WP 9).

The institution contributes to the work packages End user workshop (WP 1), Load spectra (WP 2), Correlation of existing and new data with predictions (WP 6), Recommendations towards codes (WP 7) and Data and information management (WP 8).
 
 

HSVA participates actively in full scale tests and sea trials within Arctic and Antarctic research activities and made for instance  major design contributions to and initialised construction optimisation for the German research icebreaker R/V Polar stern - one of the world's most modern research vessels for Arctic and Antarctic research.
 

Image courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA

Project Links

HSVA's  Ice and Environmental Technology is engaged in various other European projects and marine research activities supported by the European Commission.
 

• ARCTECLAB - HSVA's Large Ice Model Basin and Arctic Environmental Test Basin are European Large Scale Facilities. HSVA is offering the access to the facilities for scientists, researchers and engineers from European and associated countries under the EU-TMR-Programme.

• ARCDEV - Arctic Demonstration and Exploratory Voyage - HSVA was a major research contributor to this large research and demonstration project on Arctic Transportation and Shipping conducted under the Transport Research and Development Programme's - under the Waterborne Transport Project umbrella of the Directorate General for Energy and Transport.

• LOLEIF - Low Level Ice Forces - HSVA was the co-ordinator of this research and development project conducted under the the previous EU RTD Framework Programme within the Marine Science and Technology Programme MAST III.

Contacts
 

Hamburgische Schiffbau- Versuchsanstalt GmbH Bramfelder Star. 164  D-22305 Hamburg  Germany    Tel.: + 49 40 69 20 30 Fax.: + 49 40 69 20 33 45 WWW: www.hsva.de Email: info@hsva.de

For information regarding  HSVA's participation in  the STRICE project:  Dr.-Ing. Walter L. Kuehnlein STRICE Project Co-ordinator Head of Ice Technology Department Tel.: + 49 40 69 20 32 40 Email: kuehnlein@hsva.de Dr.-Ing. Joachim Schwarz STRICE International Co-ordinator c/o GMT - Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik Alter Achterkamp 74b, D-22927 Großhansdorf, Germany Tel.: +49 4102 6 37 56 Email: schwarz.gmt@t-online.de Dipl.-Ing. Peter Jochmann Project Scientist Tel.: + 49 40 69 20 34 25 Email: jochmann@hsva.de

Please visit also HSVA's web site  and the ARCTECLAB web site for further information.
 
 

Last update: 2002-12-02 Revision 1.2.0

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