Basic Naval Architecture: Ship Stability

Description

This textbook provides readers with an understanding of the basics of ship stability as it has been enacted in international law. The assessment of ship stability has evolved considerably since the first SOLAS convention after the sinking of the HMS Titanic, and this book enables readers to familiarise themselves with the most up-to-date modern day methodology, as well as looking ahead to the effects on ship design over the next fifty years. The author not only explains the methodology of probabilistic ship damage as required by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), but also details the new requirements to assess certain sizes and classes of ships to the seven second-generation ship stability requirements. Many textbooks that are currently used by undergraduates focus on the geometric-centric deterministic approach to the assessment of ship stability, whereas this book also includes material on the classes of ships that are now required to have probabilistic ship damage assessment, as has only recently been agreed by the IMO. Basic Naval Architecture: Ship Stability contains up-to-date information, making it ideal for university students studying ocean or marine engineering, as well as being of interest to students on naval architecture and ship science courses. Highly illustrated and including chapter studies for ease of learning, the book is an ideal one-volume textbook for students. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction to Naval Architecture (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 1-14 Basic Properties (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 15-22 Equilibrium and Stability Concepts for Floating Bodies (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 23-28 Calculating Volumes and Centres of Buoyancy (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 29-37 Further Comments on Displacement Volume and Centre of Buoyancy (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 39-55 Numerical Integration Formulæ (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 57-66 Problems Involving Changes of Draught and Trim (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 67-80 Transverse Initial Stability Topics (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 81-98 Wall-Sided Formula and Applications (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 99-105 Large Angle Stability (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 107-121 Flooding Calculations (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 123-133 End on Launching and Launching Calculations (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 135-139 Stability Assessment Methods (Deterministic and Probabilistic) (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 141-169 Second Generation Stability Methodology (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 171-186 Examples (Philip A. Wilson)....Pages 187-203