Many of the gate designs have been developed to meet the particular project requirements e.g. wide dock entrances, reverse loading etc, but also for replacement gates to make improvements on the existing.
Special facilities have been designed to assist the manoeuvring of floating gates into/out of the dock/lock entrance and systems have been developed to compensate for the varying preponderance of sliding gates.
Specially prepared in-house software has been prepared to advance the requirements of BS 5400 to cover the combining of in-plane and out-of-plane loads in steel plates in accordance with MOD standards. Other in-house software assists the design of floating structures by enabling the effect on attitude and stability to be studied for different conditions of ballast and displacement.
BRITISH STANDARD 6349 : Part 3
The firm was responsible for the drafting of British Standard 6349 - Maritime Structures :
Part 3 : Design of dry docks, locks, slipways and shipbuilding berths, shiplifts and dock and lock gates.
This part of BS.6349 gives recommendations and guidance on the planning, design, construction and maintenance of maritime structures related to the support and movement of ships and other floating structures during their construction and repair. First published in 1988, it is intended as an 'aide memoire' to shipyard operators and engineers required to plan or undertake the detailed design of such structures.
