Mobility of structural foundations for shipboard equipments has a crucial design factor for developing advanced marine vessels, such as cruise ships, naval ships, and offshore structure, in terms of vibration and noise control. In this study, a mobili...
Mobility of structural foundations for shipboard equipments has a crucial design factor for developing advanced marine vessels, such as cruise ships, naval ships, and offshore structure, in terms of vibration and noise control. In this study, a mobility of a structural foundation for a shipboard diesel generator has been quantitatively assessed with the methods based on a finite element method and an empirical formula. For this purpose, the assessment procedures with finite element analysis and empirical formula have been summarized. Mobilities of structural foundations for a shipboard diesel generator have been numerically estimated by the methods. The results have been compared with those of impact tests for real ship structures.