Section 1 General

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Clasifications Register Rules and Regulations - Rules for the Classification of Trimarans, July 2022 - Volume 1 Regulations and Structural Arrangements - Part 5 Environmental Loads - Chapter 2 Environmental Conditions - Section 1 General

Section 1 General

1.1 Introduction

1.1.1 This Chapter contains information regarding the environmental conditions to be applied in the derivation of local and global loads.

1.1.2 Environmental conditions include natural phenomena such as wind, wave and currents and also ice and thermal conditions.

1.1.3 In general, the environmental conditions are to be taken as given in the Complementary Rules.

1.1.4 Alternative methods of establishing the environmental conditions will be specially considered, provided that they are based on hindcast data, long term measurements, global and local environmental theoretical models, or similar techniques. In such cases, full details of the methods used are to be provided when plans are submitted for approval.

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