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Container Hatch Cover - Deck Load

Design deck load on a container-ship hatch cover from stack weight - basic scantling input per CSR Containerships.

Hatch coverContainerCSR
Stack load
79.5kN/m²

Formula, assumptions, and limits

20' footprint 6.1 × 2.44 = 14.88 m². Stack heights 6–8 tiers common. Design pressure includes 1.2 × dynamic motion accelerations per CSR Ch. 2 Sec. 3.

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Stack footprintISO 1496