Course Overview
This course expands the students’ basic knowledge of Ship Stability 1, with emphasis placed on the use of Simpson’s Rules to calculate areas and volumes of irregular shapes; transverse statical stability; IMO’s intact stability criteria for merchant ships; and the construction and interpretation of hydrostatic curves.
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of Term 1
Credits
4.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Recall basic stability concepts like load lines and draft marks, laws of flotation, and form coefficients.
- Calculate the change in KG due to loading, unloading, and shifting weights, and also due to free surface effect.
- Calculate areas, volumes, and centroids of irregular shapes using Simpson’s First and Second Rules.
- Explain the concept of transverse statical stability using calculations and drawings.
- Construct GZ curves for a given displacement and KG, and check to ensure that IMO’s minimum intact stability criteria is met.
- Calculate the dynamical stability to any angle of heel.
- Use and interpret information contained in hydrostatic curves.
- Calculate the angle of list resulting from loading, discharging, or suspending weights..
Effective as of Fall 2011
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