Bureau Veritas (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection, and certification, has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to InfraCore Company for its design, modelling, production and testing of a full glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rudder flap for an 18,500 TEU container ship. The certificate was delivered as a result of the EU-funded project RAMSSES .
Bureau Veritas (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection, and certification, has delivered an Approval in Principle (AiP) to InfraCore Company for its design, modelling, production and testing of a.
Photo Credit: Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding
Partners in the Realisation and Demonstration of Advanced Material Solutions for Sustainable and Efficient Ships (RAMSSES) project are working to demonstrate a composite ship that weighs 40% less than a steel equivalent, offering considerable reduction in fuel consumption and emissions.
Led by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS, Gorinche, Netherlands) and Damen Gorinchem (DSGo), in cooperation with InfraCore Co. (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Evonik (Essen, Germany), Airborne UK and TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research), a six-meter high, composite hull section was unveiled in July 2020, after three years of development. Titled, “Custom Made Hull for Offshore Vessel”, this is one of 13 demonstrators being constructed in the RAMSSES project.