Whipping-based criterion for the identification of slamming events

In this paper, a new criterion for the identification of slamming events is formulated This criterion is based on the analysis of the high-frequency response, expressed in terms of the amidships VBM, which occurs after the slams. For this reason, it is named 'whipping' criterion underlining that is based on the analysis of global effects than on the kinematic description of the impact dynamics that was provided by Ochi criterion. Both the new 'whipping' criterion and the Ochi criterion are presented and compared also with respect to their practical application to the experimental data collected in the seakeeping tests with an elastic segmented model.