Design of Inner Gate for CRIST Shipyard Dry Dock

The paper deals with a removable steel inner gate which was designed to separate two parts of a dry dock of about 70 m in width and 380 m in length. The gate allows for independent assembly of ship structures in the two separated parts of the dock. The fore part of the dock can be flooded while the after part is dry. The gate was designed by IDEK Company Ltd in 2011 and it was soon constructed and used by CRIST Shipyard in Gdynia.