Estudio del comportamiento y estabilidad de objetos flotantes

Abstract

The energetic study of the flotation equilibrium configurations for symmetric bodies with respect to the waterline, on some occasions, it is established from the principle of minimum energy, considering the geometry of each body and employing some fundamental principles in hydrostatics such as the Archimedes principle, with which you can determine the amount of volume of fluid evicted by the body that is submerged in water. In the same way, to study the configurations of balance and stability concepts such as center of gravity are introduced, center of flotation, metacenter, waterline and surface of buoyancy, between others. Generally, we start by studying the stability of the balance of these bodies with the vertical configuration, that is, in which the line joining the center of gravity G of the body with the buoyant center B or buoyancy is vertical; there the body presents a symmetry with respect to the waterline, and then continuing some inclined position where the body rotates forming a small angle with respect to said plane. Because the geometry of each body is different, the treatment with which the stability of each body is studied in principle It may be different however, as a common approach will be shown It can be sketched for different floating objects.