⚓ Ship Lift Winch Array: Load Sharing, Sync Error and Cradle Tilt (2D)

Top and side view of a ship-lift cradle hung from twenty elastic winch ropes. Set the ship mass, the offset of its centre of gravity, the winch synchronisation error, rope stiffness scatter, rope length and breaking load, and see how the load is shared, which rope is the most loaded, how far the cradle tilts and when a rope would go slack. Static equilibrium, an independent energy minimisation and the effect of planar errors are checked numerically, with four in-page numerical checks.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install