Overview of Sloshel Project

This paper provides an overview of the Sloshel project, aspects of which are further described in other ISOPE 2009 papers (Kaminski, Bogaert, 2009; Malenica, Korobkin, Ten, Gazzola, Mravak, de Lauzon, Scolan, 2009; Maguire, Whitworth, Oguibe, Radosavljevic, Carden, 2009; Wang, Shin, 2009). The Sloshel project is a Joint Industry Project to collect data from full-scale sloshing experiments using unidirectional focused waves impacting on a fully instrumented LNG carrier NO96 membrane containment panel and a concrete block within a rigid vertical wall. The paper sets out the relevance of the project within the overall methodology for the sloshing assessment of partially filled LNG tanks. It describes the experimental set-up, the parameters tested and numerical evaluation leading to new insights into the characteristics of LNG tank sloshing impacts and the influence of hydro-elasticity. The paper concludes with a summary of the numerical methods being developed and validated with this full-scale experimental data.

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