Estudo do comportamento de um navio amarrado no Posto "A" do Terminal Petroleiro do Porto de Leixões: construção e calibração do modelo físico (Physical model study of the behavior of a moored ship at the berth "A" Leixões Oil Terminal: Construction and calibration of the physical model)

Abstract

Moored ship behavior inside harbors, and therefore the operational and security conditions at a port terminal, does not have a straightforward relationship with the local environmental conditions. Due to the diversity and complexity of the involved phenomena, physical modeling is an essential tool to deal with this kind of issues. After the presentation of the Leixoes Oil Terminal, a brief description of the main problems affecting operational and security conditions at the berth "A" is carried out. Being the experimental component of the study in its initial phase, special attention is given to the construction of the physical model (including the berthing and mooring devices, the tanker model and the berthing structure) and its calibration tests. Reference is also made to experimental techniques and to the phases that compose the physical model study.