Sunday 11.09.2022

17.00 - 19.00 Visit to the European Solidarity Center (optional)
19.00 – 22.00 Standing evening reception

Monday 12.09.2022

Conference venue: National Maritime Museum

8.20 – 8.50 Registration

9.00 – 10.30 Session 1: Roll damping
Chaired by Luis Perez-Rojas & Toru Katayama

  • Correction of Eddy Making Component of Ikeda’s method and its Modification for Shallow Draught Effects (T. Katayama, N. Yoshida, Y. Yamamoto, M. Kashiwagi, Y. Ikeda)
  • Effects of Free Surface on Normal Force Component of Bilge-keel Roll Damping and Improvement of Ikeda’s method (T. Katayama, N. Yoshida, K. Sugimoto)
  • On Uncertainty Quantification of Roll Decay Test (Shawn Aram)
  • Assessment of damping and nonlinearities on the roll responses of a VLCC in waves without forward speed (C. A. Rodríguez, P.T. Esperança and M. Oliveira)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 2: Damage stability
Chaired by Hendrik Bruhns & Dimitris Konovessis

  • Evolution of p-factors in probabilistic damage stability assessment of passenger ships (Vassalos, Paterson, Mauro, Mujeeb and Boulougouris)
  • Influence of life-cycle damage stability assessment on the internal ship arrangement (Vassalos, Paterson, Mauro, Mujeeb and Boulougouris)
  • The vital role of permeable volume in damage stability assessment of passenger ships (by Vassalos, Atzampos, Boulougouris, Paterson, Mauro, Papanikolaou)
  • Experimental investigation on one damaged passenger ship in regular and irregular beam waves (by S. Bu, M. Gu, J. Zhan, K. Zeng)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.15 Session 3: Operational and real-time intact stability
Chaired by William S. Peters & Marcos Miguez Gonzalez

  • Evaluation of stability criteria on the angle of heel due to turning, in the light of ship motion simulation results (T. Hinz et al.)
  • Identification of a conservative spreading angle to realize operational roll polar plot (V. Luthy, F. Grinnaert and J. Billard)
  • Increasing performance of real time stability assessment through pitch and heave motion analysis (L. Santiago Caamaño et al.)  
  • A Method for Operational Guidance in Bi-Modal Seas (D. Edwards, S. Edwards et al.)

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.30 Session 4: Stochastic approach to intact stability assessment
Chaired by Vadim L. Belenky & Alexander B. Degtyarev

  • Extrapolation over significant wave height with the aid of stochastic wave groups theory (P. Anastopoulos and K.J. Spyrou)
  • Application of Statistical Extrapolation Techniques to Dynamic Stability (C. A. Wandji)
  • Towards a Generalized Neural Network Approach for Identifying Critical Wave Groups (K. M. Silva and K. J. Maki)
  • Stochastic Assessment Using Moment Equation Method for Parametric Rolling of Ships in Random Seaways (Y. Maruyama, A. Maki, L. Dostal)
Tuesday 13.09.2022

Conference venue: National Maritime Museum

9.00 – 10.30 Session 5: Direct intact stability assessment
Chaired by Naoya Umeda & Claudio A.Rodríguez

  • Benchmarking of direct counting approaches (V. Shigunov, C. A. Wandji, V. Belenky)
  • Measures for avoiding self-repetition effect in the direct stability assessment (Y. Maruyama, N. Umeda and A. Maki)
  • Methodology for assessing fundamental parametric roll other than the principal parametric roll (Y. Uchida, M. Sakai and N, Umeda)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 6: Stability and safety of special vessels
Chaired by Gabriele Bulian & Igor Backalov

  • Container Stowage on Bulk Carriers (H. Bruhns and R. Tagg)
  • AI-based collision avoidance system for autonomous ship navigation (H. Hashimoto and H. Yoshioka)
  • DSA-inspired assessment of autonomous ships stability during turning maneuver (P. Krata, T. Hinz et al.)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Session 7: Contemporary stability issues of naval vessels
Chaired by Frans van Walree & Jean-François Leguen  

  • Mitigation maneuvers to reduce parametric roll on a naval ship (by V. Luthy, F. Grinnaert, J-Y Billard)
  • Ship capsize dynamics: a numerical sensitivity study (by M. Bonci)
  • A SGISC- based study of operational profiles for navy vessels (by N. Petacco and P. Gualeni)
  • Evaluating the Dynamic Motions of a Damaged Ocean Survey Vessel (by O. Hizir)


15.00 – 15.15 Group photo

16.40 – 17.00 Walk to the ship berth and embarkation

17.00 – 19.00 Boat tour

19.00 – 22.00 Evening program

Wednesday 14.09.2022

Conference venue: National Maritime Museum

9.00 – 10.15 Session 8: Safety of marine transportation and navigation
Chaired by Ning Ma & Przemysław Krata

  • Research and development of early detection algorithm of parametric resonance for ships and offshore floating structures in waves (by Liwei Yu, Lin Huang, Ning Ma)
  • Fleet monitoring and detection of risk level by utilization of typical operational patterns (by Laaksonen K. et al.)
  • TopTier, seakeeping and container cargo securing safety (by J. Koning, R. Grin, W. Pauw)

10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.15 Session 9: Future of stability and safety assessment
Chaired by Dracos Vassalos & Konstantinos Spyrou

  • A lightning intact and damage stability in a multi-level-assessment framework (Vassalos, Paterson, Mauro, Mujeeb, Murphy, Michalec and Boulougouris)
  • Development of Reduced Order Models for Hydrodynamic Responses (Kenneth Weems, Themistoklis Sapsis, Vladas Pipiras)
  • Cyclical Long Memory in Ship Motions at Non-Zero Speed (Vladas Pipiras, Pavlos Zoubouloglou, Themistoklis Sapsis)
  • A vulnerability criterion for ship yawing in following waves (Kostas Spyrou & Vicky Margari)

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 13.45 Closing session