Ship design and performance for masters and mates / C.B. Barrass
Students, professional trainees and marine engineers studying for their certificates of competency, as well as more experienced marine engineers on shore or at sea, will all welcome this quick to use, comprehensive reference that brings the key information needed to understand ship design and perfor...
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Amsterdam
Elsevier
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Ship design. Preliminary estimates for new ships: main dimensions
- Preliminary estimates for group weights for a new ship
- Preliminary capacities for a new ship
- Approximate hydrostatic particulars
- Types of ship resistance
- Types of ship speed
- Types of power in ships
- Power coefficients on ships
- Preliminary design methods for a ship's propeller and rudder
- Nomenclature for ship design and performance
- Pt. 2. Ship performance. Modern merchant ships
- Ships of this millennium
- Ship trials: a typical 'diary of events'
- Ship trials: speed performance on the measured mile
- Ship trials: endurance and fuel consumption
- Ship trials: manoeuvring trials and stopping characteristics
- Ship trials: residual trials
- Ship squat in open water and in confined channels
- Reduced ship speed and decreased propeller revolutions in shallow waters
- The phenomena of interaction of ships in confined waters
- Ship vibration
- Performance enhancement in ship-handling mechanisms
- Improvements in propeller performance
- Useful design and performance formulae
- Revision one-liners for student's examination preparation
- How to pass examinations in maritime studies.