VERGASSOLA , Gianmarco

The construction of super and megayachts has overcome the recent economic crisis by increasing the quality of the final product and by changing the main input of the entire project. The old trend of searching higher and higher speeds and performances has been overstretched by a strong focus on the comfort onboard that has to be addressed by...

In the last years, after the economic crisis that modified the super and megayacht market and construction, the project focus of shipyards and owners has been moved from the research of higher performances and whimsical exteriors to more classic aesthetics and higher level of onboard comfort. This first aspect has led to the use of larger...

Viscoelastic materials are used in ship and yacht constructions for floating floors, engine foundations and laminated glass. The contribution of viscoelastic rubbers is related to their capability to withstand and damp airborne and structural borne noise. New regulations have outlined the necessity to perform numerical analysis in the early...

The growing increase in length of super and megayachts has driven structural designers to adopt longitudinal layouts as a main point in the structural scantlings. By the way, the optimization of weights, strength, deformations and dynamic behaviour has to be evaluated separately for each new unit because of the particular and unique...

High performance sailing yachts are generally designed assuming high local and global loads transmitted by rigs to hull structures. The above-mentioned loading conditions can become critical for large hulls also in terms of displacements when composite materials are used. In this scenario, it is very important to use lightweight and...

The construction of Wind Farm Support Vessels (WFSV) can be considered as one of the most dynamic industrial sector of the last 10 years in Europe and U.S.; at the time being it can count more than 400 vessels working in the only European sea fields. WFSV-PL is a 25m catamaran prototype completely designed by a Polish-Italian team, built with...