Description
Comprehensive Coverage of Ship Stability, Strength, and Load Calculations
This authoritative volume is divided into three detailed sections, each tailored to meet the needs of maritime officers at various stages of certification.
Part A – Ship Stability for the Officer of the Watch
This section introduces the fundamental principles of ship stability, progressing to the use of hydrostatic data in loading calculations. Key topics include principal design coefficients, load line requirements, and the importance of maintaining adequate reserve buoyancy. It also explores the ship’s centre of gravity (G) and centre of buoyancy (B), along with the curve of statical stability (GZ curve), and distinguishes between list and loll. Readers will gain an understanding of how suspended weights affect stability and the significance of trim during loading, discharging, and ballasting operations.
Part B – Ship Strength and Structural Stresses
Focusing on ship construction and structural integrity, this part covers the classification of shipbuilding materials, shipboard stresses, and methods of structural compensation. Topics include shear force and bending moment calculations, as well as corrosion control measures critical to maintaining hull strength over time.
Part C – Advanced Stability and Load Line Calculations for Mates and Masters
Aimed at senior officers, this section provides in-depth procedures for calculating trim, draught, and load lines. It explains forces acting on a ship during dry-docking, the inclining experiment, and advanced stability topics such as the angle of loll, wind heeling, and rolling in rough seas. It includes practical guidance on cargo-specific stability issues—covering bulk cargoes, grain, and timber deck cargoes—and details the draught survey procedure. The section ensures readers understand how to verify compliance with MCA and IMO stability criteria and international regulations.
Enhanced Learning Tools
The book includes numerous worked examples to support voyage planning and load calculations, offering real-world applications of theoretical principles. Cross-referenced throughout with current regulations, conventions, and codes of practice, this is a critical resource for professional maritime training.
Contents
Part A SHIP STABILITY FOR THE OFFICER OF THE WATCH
Chapter 1 Basic Principles
Chapter 2 Hydrostatic Data – Draught, Displacement and Tonnes per Centimetre Immersion (TPC)
Chapter 3 Design Coefficients
Chapter 4 Load Lines
Chapter 5 Centre of Gravity (G) and Centre of Buoyancy (B)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Centre of gravity (G)
5.3 Multiple weight problems
5.4 Centre of buoyancy (B)
Chapter 6 An Introduction to Transverse Statical Stability
Chapter 7 Conditions of Stability
Chapter 8 Initial Transverse Metacentre (M)
Chapter 9 Free Surface Effect
Chapter 10 The Curve of Statical Stability (GZ Curve)
Chapter 11 List
Chapter 12 Curves of Statical Stability for Different Conditions:
Chapter 13 Suspended Weights
Chapter 14 Trim
Part B SHIP STRENGTH AND STRESSES
Chapter 15 Shipbuilding Materials
Chapter 16 Ship Stresses and Structural Strength Compensation
Chapter 17 Shear Force and Bending Moment Calculations
Chapter 18 Corrosion Control
Part C SHIP STABILITY FOR MATES AND MASTERS
Chapter 19 Change of Trim due to Change of Density and Harder Trim Problems
Chapter 20 Air Draughts
Chapter 21 Dry-Docking
Chapter 22 The Inclining Experiment
Chapter 23 The Wall-sided Formula including Calculating the
Chapter 24 Factors Affecting the Shape of the Curve of
Chapter 25 Assessing Compliance of a Ship’s Loaded Condition with MCA and IMO Stability Criteria
Chapter 26 Bulk Cargoes and the Carriage of Grain
Chapter 27 Calculation and Assignment of Freeboard
Chapter 28 Stability Aspects of Timber Deck Cargoes
Chapter 29 Wind Heeling
Chapter 30 Icing
Chapter 31 Draught Surveys
Chapter 32 Heel when Turning
Chapter 33 Bilging
Chapter 34 Rolling and Dangerous Sea Wave Phenomena
Chapter 35 Voyage Planning Calculations
Chapter 36 Ship Load Calculations
Appendix Ship Stability Data Sheets
