Design of Ship Structures
- The main structural components of the ship hull and their functions.
- Ship Structural Loads - weight, buoyancy, and wave induced loads.
- Primary, secondary and tertiary responses of the hull girder.
- Primary bending stresses. Section modules calculations.
- Shear stresses.
- Shear lag and Effective Breadth Concepts.
- Structural analysis of the girder structural elements: grillages, frames, beams with intermediate supports, plates, stiffened plates.
- Buckling/Ultimate Strength of Plates and Stiffened Plates.
- Ship Hull Girder Ultimate Strength.
- Use of Finite Element method in ship structural analysis.