Groupe Finot Naval Architects and the School of Engineering Sciences, Ship Science of the University of Southampton have started a joint research project to carry out an experimental investigation concerning the effects of slamming on offshore sailing yachts.
A reliable autonomous data acquisition system was designed that allowed measurements to be taken during long offshore races. The details of the design and implementation of this system are presented together with some sample results from the first measurement campaigns.
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2001. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
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