An experimental investigation of an underwater explosion (UNDEX) induced whipping response was conducted on a submerged platform. The platform was subjected to eight near-field, non-contact UNDEX events, using two explosive charge sizes at three longitudinal positions along the hull length, coinciding with predetermined peak and node positions of the natural bending mode responses of the platform.

This report proposes an M&S framework for evaluating ship performance in support of Royal Australian Navy acquisitions.

The widely studied generic submarine hull form SUBOFF is used to benchmark the use of the Australian Maritime College's cavitation tunnel for hydrodynamic measurements on submarine models in this report.

This report describes the ongoing development of the Slotted Waveguide Antenna Stiffened Structure (SWASS) technology during the period 2010 to 2012.

This report details an experimental comparison between the performance of conventional electrical resistance foil strain gauges and a commercially available fibre optic distributed strain measurement system based on Rayleigh scattering. 

The flow structures around a hemispherical protuberance were studied using dye-injection flow visualisation in the DST Group Water Tunnel. A 100 mm diameter hemisphere was placed in a laminar oncoming boundary layer, and video imaging of the dye streamlines were captured at diameter-based Reynolds numbers of 6:91 x 10^3 and 1:15 x 10^4. The observations generally agree well with previous studies, while analysis of the video footage has provided additional insight into the evolution of the unsteady flow field.