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1. Trade Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust University Technology Centre Hydrodynamics, Hydroelasticity & the Mechanics of Composites Context Lloyd's Register (LR) is an independent risk management organisation. The Lloyd's Register Group works to improve its clients' quality, safety, environmental and business performance. Founded in 1760 to examine merchant ships and 'classify' them according to their condition, today the organisation's expertise and activities extend far wider than the shipping field. The objectives of the University Technology Centre or UTC, sponsored by the LR Educational Trust (LRET) are: (a) Support LR’s constitutional objective of fostering research; (b) Encourage a general advance in technology in areas of interest to LR; (c) Promote closer working relationship with high quality academic institutions such as UoS; and (d) Provide opportunities for collaborative working and staff development • Example Projects • Parametric roll of ships • Rogue waves and influence on ship loading • Sloshing in tanks and effect on ship behaviour • Power flow and structural dynamics • Reliability of composite structures • Ultimate strength modelling of FRP plates • Slamming and water impact loading • Remote processing and distributed computing • High speed vessels Scale model of a container ship in the wind tunnel. • Impact • The impact of this work has been four-fold: • Better methods for the design of ships and floating structures • Computer programs for ship loadings and responses • International collaboration with colleagues and industrialists in Singapore and Korea • Public workshops where results from the research have been disseminated Beluga Projects was one of the first ships equipped with a full-scale site propulsion system. www.southampton.ac.uk