%0 Journal Article %A Alessandro A. Zizzari and Francesca Calabrese and Giovanni Indiveri and Andrea Coraddu and Diego Villa %D 2013 %J International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 73, 2013 %T A Comparative Study on Different Approaches to Evaluate Ship Equilibrium Point %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3730 %V 73 %X The aim of this paper is to present a comparative study on two different methods for the evaluation of the equilibrium point of a ship, core issue for designing an On Board Stability System (OBSS) module that, starting from geometry information of a ship hull, described by a discrete model in a standard format, and the distribution of all weights onboard calculates the ship floating conditions (in draught, heel and trim). %P 55 - 59