The increase of ship dimensions (from VLCC to ULCC), started around 1950 and came to a stand-still in 1980 after the oil crisis. Here the dimension increase is reviewed from the hull structure design viewpoint.
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Okumoto, Y., Takeda, Y., Mano, M., Okada, T. (2009). Progress in Ship Design. In: Okumoto, Y., Takeda, Y., Mano, M., Okada, T. (eds) Design of Ship Hull Structures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88445-3_5
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