Evaluating lock gates' strength due to ship collisions: A Douro waterway lock gates case study

This paper presents a crashworthiness case study where is evaluated the Douro river lock gates' strength due to ship collisions. The increasing traffic in the Douro waterway and the prospect of reopening the Moncorvo iron mines have settled the conditions for starting the preliminary works on the modernisation of the waterway. Since the construction of the Douro river lock gates, the mass of the ships navigating the waterway have increased from...