DEFENSE AGAINST SHIP AS A WEAPON
dc.contributor.advisor | Papoulias, Fotis A. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Huynh, Thomas V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Koh, Wee Yung | |
dc.date | 2011-12 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-01T16:23:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-01T16:23:09Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/14850 | |
dc.description.abstract | As an example of ships used as weapons (SAW), an oil tanker is hijacked and commandeered by terrorists to collide with a high-value maritime or shore target. If sunk or destroyed in a shipping lane as a result of a counter measure, the SAW’s collateral damage would severely disrupt the traffic flow in the shipping lane. To prevent such a disruptive catastrophe, non-destructive measures must be implemented to cause the SAW to deviate from its destructive path toward the target. One such a measure involves a strategic application of forces induced by water plume barriers (WPB) to the SAW. The goal of this thesis is to examine the feasibility of realizing such a measure. Toward this goal, a mission analysis, using the Singapore Strait as setting and petrochemical plants on Jurong Island as targets of a SAW attack, establishes the requirement on the deviation of the SAW path from its destructive course. The nominal WPB-induced force that satisfies the deviation requirement is estimated using ship hydrostatics. Solving the equations of motion governing the response of the SAW to a strategic application of a WPB-induced force yields the SAW’s motion, which is used to define a range of the WPB-induced forces and their application locations and durations that satisfy the SAW’s path deviation requirement. Parametric studies were conducted for a range of physically realizable WPB-induced forces and application times. The results demonstrate that, in principle, the objectives of this work are achievable. These results will be validated upon the completion of an on-going research by National University of Singapore. The range of the WPB-generated forces and their application durations serve as requirements to the generation of water plume barriers. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright is reserved by the copyright owner. | en_US |
dc.subject | Ship As a Weapons | en_US |
dc.subject | Water Plume Barriers | en_US |
dc.title | DEFENSE AGAINST SHIP AS A WEAPON | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.secondreader | Cheong, Khoo Boo | |
dc.contributor.department | Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.description.service | Singapore Technologies Marine | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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