Ship stability for masters and mates /
"Understanding ship stability is critical for all maritime students or professionals who are studying for a deck or engineering certificate of competency, or seeking promotion to a higher rank within any branch of the merchant marine or Navy. The sixth edition of the now classic 'Ship Stab...
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Burlington, Mass. :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2006.
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| Edition: | 6th ed. / rev. by C.B. Barrass. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Linking ship stability and ship motions
- 1. Forces and moments
- 2. Centroids and the centre of gravity
- 3. Density and specific gravity
- 4. Laws of flotation
- 5. Group weights, water draft, air draft and density
- 6. Transverse statical stability
- 7. Effect of free surface of liquids on stability
- 8. TPC and displacement curves
- 9. Form coefficients
- 10. Simpson's rules for areas and centroids
- 11. Second moments of area
- moments of inertia
- 12. Calculating KB, BM and metacentric diagrams
- 13. Final KG plus twenty reasons for a rise in G
- 14. Angle of list
- 15. Moments of statical stability
- 16. Trim or longitudinal stability
- 17. Stability and hydrostatic curves
- 18. Increase in draft due to list
- 19. Water pressure
- 20. Combined list and trim
- 21. Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids (FSE)
- 22. Bilging and permeability
- 23. Dynamical stability
- 24. Effect of beam and freeboard on stability
- 25. Effects of side winds on stability
- 26. Icing allowances plus effects on trim and stability
- 27. Type A, type B and type (B-60) vessels plus FL and PL curves (as governed by DfT regulations)
- 28. Load lines and freeboard marks
- 29. Timber ship freeboard marks
- 30. IMO grain rules for the safe carriage of grain in bulk
- 31. Angle of loll
- 32. True mean draft
- 33. The inclining experiment plus fluctuations in a ship's lightweight
- 34. The calibration book plus soundings and ullages
- 35. Drydocking and grounding
- 36. Liquid pressure and thrust plus centres of pressure
- 37. Ship squat in open water and in confined channels
- 38. Interaction, including two case studies
- 39. Heel due to turning
- 40. Rolling, pitching and heaving motions
- 41. Synchronous rolling and parametric rolling of ships
- 42. List due to bilging side compartments
- 43. Effect of change of density on draft and trim
- 44. List with zero metacentric height
- 45. The deadweight scale
- 46. The trim and stability book
- 47. Simplified stability information
- 48. The stability pro-forma
- Pt. 2. Linking ship stability and ship strength
- 49. Bending of beams
- 50. Bending of ships
- 51. Strength curves for ships
- 52. Bending and shear stresses
- Pt. 3. Endnotes
- 53. Draft surveys
- 54. Quality control plus the work of ship surveyors
- 55. Extracts from the 1998 merchant shipping (load line) regulations reference number MSN 1752 (M)
- 56. Keeping up to date
- Pt. 4. Appendices
- I. Summary of stability formulae
- II. SQA/MCA 2004 syllabuses for masters and mates
- III. Specimen exam questions with marking scheme
- IV. 100 revision one-liners
- V. How to pass exams in maritime studies.