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OFFPIPE Sign Convention

The document compares the OFFPIPE and OSCAR sign conventions for describing barge motion. Both agree that heave is positive when the barge moves upward, sway is positive when it moves to starboard, and pitch is positive when the bow moves up. However, they differ in their definitions of surge, roll, and yaw.

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OFFPIPE Sign Convention

The document compares the OFFPIPE and OSCAR sign conventions for describing barge motion. Both agree that heave is positive when the barge moves upward, sway is positive when it moves to starboard, and pitch is positive when the bow moves up. However, they differ in their definitions of surge, roll, and yaw.

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OFFPIPE Sign Convention

OSCAR Sign Convention


Surge is positive when the laybarge moves forward in the direction of the local Surge is positive when the laybarge moves backward or toward the stern.
X axis of the laybarge co-ordinate system.
Heave is positive when the barge moves upward.

Heave is positive when the barge moves upward.

Sway is positive when the barge moves to starboard.

Sway is positive when the barge moves to starboard.

Roll is positive when it represents a right-handed ro-tation about the local X


axis of the laybarge coordinate system (port up and starboard down).
Pitch is positive when it represents a right-handed rotation about the local Z
axis of the laybarge coor- dinate system (bow up and stern down).

Roll is positive when it represents a right-handed rotation about the aft directed
longitudinal axis of the barge (port down and starboard up).
Pitch is positive when it represents a right-handed rotation about a starboard
directed horizontal axis (bow up and stern down).

Yaw is positive when it represents a LEFT-HANDED rotation about the local


Y axis of the laybarge coordinate system (bow to starboard and stern to port).
The sign convention for yaw is the same as for compass heading.

Yaw is positive when it represents a right-handed rotation about an upward


directed vertical axis (bow to port and stern to starboard). The sign convention
for yaw is opposite the sign convention for compass heading.

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