A New Method for Cargo-Passenger Vessel Hydrostatic Parameters Analysis

 In this study, software that can analyze ship hydrostatics parameters using Java programming language is developed. Ship hydrostatic parameters are properties of the immersed portion of the ship in water. The analyses of ship hydrostatic parameters are done by employing computer software, but the cost of acquiring the license of such expert software is expensive. Owing to this fact, this research was carried out to meet the need of analyzing ship hydrostatics parameters for both academic and industrial applications at marginal expense. Java programming language was adopted for this research because of its outstanding features such as internet security, portability, variety of integrated development environments (IDEs), platform independent and free to download on internet. The mathematical approximation or integration method as a technique for formulating ship hydrostatics parameters was adopted for this research. This is because it has the ability to make use of computer technology and it can be used to obtain the area of a ship and other hydrostatics parameters. The results produced in this research are reasonable and acceptable as evidenced from the comparison analysis with existing results of offsets values of a cargo-passenger vessel obtained from SNAME.Â