INTRODUCTION TO NAVAL ARCHITECTURE
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION SHIPS NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE NAVAL ARCHITECT THE IMPACT OF COMPUTERS SHIP DESIGN THE REQUIREMENTS DESIGN DEVELOPING THE DESIGN THE DESIGN PROCESS SOME GENERAL DESIGN ATTRIBUTES SAFETY SUMMARY DE?NITION AND REGULATION DE?NITION DISPLACEMENT AND TONNAGE REGULATION SHIP FORM CALCULATIONS APPROXIMATE INTEGRATION SPREADSHEETS FLOTATION AND INITIAL STABILITY EQUILIBRIUM STABILITY AT SMALL ANGLES HYDROSTATIC CURVES PROBLEMS IN TRIM AND STABILITY FREE SURFACES THE INCLINING EXPERIMENT THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT WATER AND AIR WIND WAVES WAVE STATISTICS FREAK WAVES OTHER EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS MARINE POLLUTION STABILITY AT LARGE ANGLES STABILITY CURVES WEIGHT MOVEMENTS DYNAMICAL STABILITY STABILITY STANDARDS FLOODING AND DAMAGED STABILITY LAUNCHING, DOCKING AND GROUNDING LAUNCHING DOCKING GROUNDING RESISTANCE FLUID ?OW TYPES OF RESISTANCE CALCULATION OF RESISTANCE METHODICAL SERIES ROUGHNESS FORM PARAMETERS AND RESISTANCE MODEL EXPERIMENTS FULL SCALE TRIALS EFFECTIVE POWER PROPULSION GENERAL PRINCIPLES PROPULSORS THE SCREW PROPELLER PROPELLER THRUST AND TORQUE PRESENTATION OF PROPELLER DATA HULL EF?CIENCY ELEMENTS CAVITATION OTHER PROPULSOR TYPES SHIP TRIALS MAIN MACHINERY POWER SHIP DYNAMICS THE BASIC RESPONSES SHIP VIBRATIONS CALCULATIONS VIBRATION LEVELS SEAKEEPING SEAKEEPING QUALITIES SHIP MOTIONS PRESENTATION OF MOTION DATA MOTIONS IN IRREGULAR SEAS LIMITING FACTORS OVERALL SEAKEEPING PERFORMANCE ACQUIRING SEAKEEPING DATA EFFECT OF SHIP FORM STABILIZATION MANOEUVRING DIRECTIONAL STABILITY AND CONTROL MANOEUVRING DEVICES SHIP HANDLING DYNAMIC STABILITY AND CONTROL OF SUBMARINES MODIFYING THE MANOEUVRING PERFORMANCE UNDERWATER VEHICLES MAIN HULL STRENGTH MODES OF FAILURE NATURE OF THE SHIP’S STRUCTURE FORCES ON A SHIP SECTION MODULUS SUPERSTRUCTURES STANDARD CALCULATION RESULTS TRANSVERSE STRENGTH STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS STRENGTH OF INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS DYNAMICS OF LONGITUDINAL STRENGTH HORIZONTAL ?EXURE AND TORSION LOAD-SHORTENING CURVES FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS STRUCTURAL SAFETY CORROSION THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT IMPORTANT FACTORS SHIP TYPES MERCHANT SHIPS HIGH SPEED CRAFT WARSHIPS