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This is the final published version of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, USA, 2017.
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Hull-coating (blasting and painting) renewal (repair) of a ship is a part of the routine maintenance works of a ship. It is carried out only when the ship is in a dock (graving dock, floating dock or slipway). For a routine maintenance schedule, hull coating repairing works dictate the duration of stay of a ship in the dock. Therefore, it is very vital to get the correct information about the hull coating repairing scope of works, prior to docking, to maintain the dock operation schedule; dry-docking duration. Presently, the scope of hull coating repairing works is decided on the spot after the ship’s bottom inspection jointly carried out by the representatives of the owner, the shipyard and the paint manufacturer/supplier. Most of the time, the inspection result does not match with the pre-planned dock operation schedule. Hence, the overall dock operation schedule gets affected due to delay or early undocking of a ship.Coating repair and related information for 149 cargo ships were collected from a single shipyard. Coating repair data were analyzed and presented in both tabular and graphical forms to show the behavior of quantity of coating repair on age, deadweight and type of ships. The physical size of a ship has a great influence on the hull blasting and painting repairing works irrespective of design parameters of the ship. An approach for preliminary estimation of blasting and painting prior docking is proposed based on ships’ dimensions and the actual area of hull and the various hull locations. In this paper, the authors have made an attempt to identify the independent variables that influence the coating repairing scope (the dependent variable) and their inter-relationship.Data analysis of 149 cargo ships of various ages, deadweights, and types suggest that all these items (independent variables) have influences on the scope of hull coating repairing works, and those are linearly associated.
Author(s): Dev AK, Saha M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Ship Production and Design
Year: 2017
Volume: 33
Issue: 3
Pages: 197-211
Print publication date: 01/08/2017
Online publication date: 23/08/2016
Acceptance date: 25/07/2016
Date deposited: 14/01/2019
ISSN (print): 2158-2866
ISSN (electronic): 2158-2874
Publisher: The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, USA
URL: https://doi.org/10.5957/JSPD.33.3.150037
DOI: 10.5957/JSPD.33.3.150037
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