Stability for a parallelepipedal crane using auto-ship soft-ware

The paper presents the stability analysis of a parallelepipedal crane barge, under operational and environmental scenarios, using the AutoShip software, specifically ModelMaker and AutoHydro packages. The characteristics of the crane are length of 42.59 m, breadth of 20.19 m, depth of 1.50 m and a construction height of 3.5 m. The design of the crane was imported from Rhinoceros using .IGES file to software package ModelMaker from AutoShip. The stability analysis wore made in AutoHydro software package from AutoShip. The main contribution of the paper is to highlight the usefulness and efficiency (in terms of rapidity and accuracy) of using software tools (AutoHydro from the package AutoShip) to study nautical qualities (buoyancy and stability) of a parallelepipedal crane barge in several exploitation scenario.