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were set up especially to support this curve. During her three years in drydock, the center keel blocks were gradually shortened, allowing the hog to settle out. Additionally, the diagonal riders specified in her original design to resist hogging, which had been removed in an earlier refit, were
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experiences that causes the center or the keel to bend upward. Sagging is the stress a ship's hull or keel is placed under when a wave is the same length as the ship and the ship is in the trough of two waves. This causes the middle of the ship to bend down slightly, and depending on the level of
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Hogging, or "hog", also refers to the semi-permanent bend in the keel, especially in wooden-hulled ships, caused over time by the ship's center's being more buoyant than the bow or stern. At the beginning of her 1992 refit,
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During loading and discharging cargo, ships bend (hog or sag) due to the distribution of the weights in the various holds and tanks on board.
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Diagram of ship's hull that is (1) sagging and (2) hogging under loads. Bending is exaggerated for illustrative purposes.
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is submerged or not. Therefore, sagging can reduce her effective cargo capacity – especially if her
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has already been reached prematurely due to the sag. This is taken into account when calculating
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was attributed to hogging. Subsequent lawsuits blamed the shipbuilder for design flaws.
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The maximum amount of cargo that a vessel can load often depends on whether her
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had 36 inches (91 cm) of hog before refitting in the mid-1990s.
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had over 13 inches (33 cm) of hog. The keel blocks in the
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In building construction, the sagging of beams is called "
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describes a beam that curves upwards in the middle, and
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Sagging or dynamic hogging may have been what sank the
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Diagram showing hogging stress and the diagonal risers
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Index

solid mechanics
structural engineering
shipbuilding
beam
deform
loading

hull
keel
Prestige
MOL Comfort
Yemen
USS Constitution
drydock
USS Constellation
Plimsoll mark
loadline
cargo
Simpson's first rule
deflection
Glossary of nautical terms
Strength of ships
Hog chains
"Mitsubishi Heavy sued for ¥60 bil. over sunken freighter"
the original
"USS Constitution Rehabilitation And Restoration"
"The Constellation Restoration Effort - After Two Years"
"Constellation"
the original
"Measurement of bulk cargoes"

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