Ship Construction and Stability 5 NAUT 1866

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Outline shipbuilding materials.
• Outline welding and cutting processes.
• Explain the importance of a transverse bulkhead.
• Differentiate between watertight and weathertight doors.
• Outline corrosion on ships, and develop a corrosion prevention plan.
• Explain the requirements for classification society surveys.
• Calculate angle of heel after loading, discharging, and shifting weights on board.
• Use ship's hydrostatic data.
• Calculate draft and trim after loading, discharging, and moving weights on board.
• Outline the requirements for surveys, and precautions when entering dry dock.
• Outline the effects of density on ship's draft.
• Compare ship's stability at moderate and large angles of heel.
• Outline simplified stability data, and its use.
• Calculate dynamical stability.
• Calculate change in trim due to density.
• Demonstrate the ability to use a computer-based program to calculate ship's stability and stresses.
• Outline intact stability requirements for the carriage of grain.
• Analyze ship's GM by rolling period tests.
• Calculate permeability.
• Calculate the effect of flooding on transverse stability and trim.
• Calculate the effect of flooding on vessel's stability.
• Outline the precautions during an inclining experiment.
• Outline the intact stability requirements for passenger and cargo ships under 100 metres.
• Outline the master's responsibilities under international conventions and codes.
• Discuss the effect of beam and freeboard on ship's stability.

Effective as of Fall 2020