The interested reader is directed to the books and papers listed below:

ABCD Working Group on Human Performance at Sea 1995. Generating and using human performance simulation data to guide designers and operators of navy ships. Two large multinational programs. Proceedings, International Conference on Seakeeping and weather. Feb/March. London, UK.

(This paper provides some useful information on seakeeping criteria, with particular reference to naval vessels)

Bailey, D. 1967. The NPL high speed round bilge displacement hull series. Maritime Technology Monograph No. 4, Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

(Extensive model tests on a systematic series of fast, round bilge hull forms. Used as validation data for Seakeeper.)

Bhattacharyya, R., 1978. Dynamics of Marine Vehicles. Wiley, New York.

(Covers many aspects of seakeeping of vessels.)

Bishop, R.E.D. and Price, W.G., 1979. Hydroelasticity of Ships. Cambridge University Press.

(This book gives a detailed insight into of seakeeping analysis, with particular reference to wave induced vessel loads.)

Bishop, R.E.D., Price, W.G. and Tam, P.K.Y., 1978. Hydrodynamic coefficients of some heaving cylinders of arbitrary shape. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol 13, pp17-33.

(This paper looks at some of the different methods available for computing the hydrodynamic properties of oscillating sections; this will be of academic interest only.)

Boyd, J.C.M. 1995. Analysis of Non-Linear Vessel Motions Using Modified Linear Strip Theory. MSc Thesis, Curtin University of Technology.

(One of the publications arising from the original development of Seakeeper by AME at Curtin University of technology.)

Colwel, J.L. Motion sickness habituation in the naval environment. Defence Research Establishment Atlantic Technical Memorandum 94/211. Canada. May 1994.

Colwel, J.L. Human factors in the naval environment: a review of motion sickness and biodynamic problems. Defence Research Establishment Atlantic Technical Memorandum 89/220. Canada. September 1989.

Gerritsma, J. and Beukelman, W., 1964. The distribution of the hydrodynamic forces on a heaving and pitched ship model in still water. International Shipbuilding Progress, Vol. 11, pp506-522

(Original publication including theoretical background for one of the added resistance prediction methods.)

Gerritsma, J. and Beukelman, W., 1967. Analysis of a modified strip theory for the calculation of ship motions and wave bending moments. International Shipbuilding Progress, Vol. 14, pp319-337

(Original publication including theoretical background for one of the added resistance prediction methods.)

Gerritsma, J. and Beukelman, W., 1972. Analysis of the resistance increase in waves of a fast cargo ship. International Shipbuilding Progress.

(Original publication including theoretical background for one of the added resistance prediction methods.)

Hogben, N. and Lumb, F.E., 1967. Ocean Wave Statistics, HMSO.

(Index of wave statistics for oceans and times of the year.)

Jong, B. de, 1973. Computation of the hydrodynamic coefficients of oscillating cylinders. Netherlands Research Centre TNO Report, 145 S.

(Provides details on the computation of sectional properties using conformal mapping techniques, this will be of academic interest only.)

Lewis, E.V.(Editor), 1989. Principles of Naval Architecture, Volume III. - Motions in waves and controllability. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

(This book gives a good overview of the subject of seakeeping and an explanation of some of the underlying principles used for calculating a vessel's response to a seaway.)

Lewis, F.M. 1929. The inertia of water surrounding a vibrating ship, Transactions, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 27, 1-20

(One of the original publications regarding the use of the Lewis Mapping - a three parameter conformal mapping of the unit circle to ship-like sections.)

Lloyd, A.R.J.M., 1989, 1998. Seakeeping: Ship behaviour in rough weather. Ellis Horwood Series in Marine Technology. ISBN 0 95322634 0 1

(This book has recently been re-published (1998), it provides a through guide to most aspects of Seakeeping. It includes much example data, mainly for naval vessels. It also provides a good introduction to Strip Theory.)

McCauley, M.E., Royal, J.W., Wylie, C.D., O’Hanlon, J.F., and Mackie, R.R. Motion sickness incidence: Exploratory studies of habituation, pitch and roll and the refinement of a mathematical model. Human Factors Reseach Inc., Technical Report 1733-2 (USN ONR contract N00014-73-C-0040), April 1976

Molland, A.F., Wellicome, J.F. and Couser, P.R. 1995. Experimental measurements of the seakeeping characteristics of fast displacement catamarans in long-crested head-seas. University of Southampton, Ship Science Report No. 89, December.

(Towing tank tests on an extensive systematic series of catamaran and monohull forms based on the NPL round bilge series. Some of this data has been used in the validation of Seakeeper.)

O’Hanlon, J.F., and McCauley, M.E. Motion sickness incidence as a function of the frequency and acceleration of vertical sinusoidal motion. Aerospace Medicine, 45(4):366-369, 1974

Rawson, K.J and Tupper, E.C.,1984. Basic Ship Theory, Volume 2, Third Edition. Longman.

(This book gives a basic introduction to the subject of seakeeping and an explanation of some of the underlying principles used for calculating a vessel's response to a seaway.)

Salvesen, N., Tuck, O.E. and Faltinsen, O., 1970. Ship motions and sea loads. Transactions, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, No. 78, pp250-287.

(This is one of the milestone papers in the field. The underlying strip theory used in Seakeeper is based on the work published in this paper. Readers with a good naval architecture background, who wish to understand the concepts of strip theory more thoroughly will find this paper very informative.

Salvesen, N., 1978. Added resistance of ships in waves. Journal of Hydronautics, No. 12, pp24-34.

(Original publication including theoretical background for one of the added resistance prediction methods.)

Sutherland, I. 1987. Prediction of hull response to waves. MSc Thesis, Curtin University of Technology.

(One of the publications arising from the original development of Seakeeper by AME at Curtin University of technology.)

Ursell, F. 1949. On the heaving motion of a circular cylinder in the surface of a fluid, Quart. J. Mech. Appl. Math., 2, 218-231

(Academic interest only, good maths required.)

Ursell, F. 1949. On the rolling motion of a circular cylinder in the surface of a fluid, Quart. J. Mech. Appl. Math., 2, 335-353

(Academic interest only, good maths required.)

Vugts, J.H. 1968. The hydrodynamic coefficients for swaying, heaving and rolling of cylinders in a free surface. Netherlands Ship Research Centre TNO Report No. 112 S

(Theoretical and experimental results for a number of 2D section shapes.)