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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 Stability&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, Mass. :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2006.
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| Edición: | 6th ed. / rev. by C.B. Barrass. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Forces and moments
- Centroids and the centre of gravity
- Density and specific gravity
- Laws of flotation
- Group weights, water draft, air draft and density
- Transverse statical stability
- Effect of free surface of liquids on stability
- TPC and displacement curves
- Form coefficients
- Simpson's rules for areas and centroids
- Second moments of area
- Moments of inertia
- Calculating KB, BM and metacentric diagrams
- Final KG plus twenty reasons for a rise in G
- Angle of list
- Moments of statical stability
- Trim or longitudinal stability
- Stability and hydrostatic curves
- Increase in draft due to list
- Water pressure
- Combined list and trim
- Calculating the effect of free surface liquids (FSE)
- Bilging and permeability
- Dynamical stability
- Effect of beam and freeboard on stabilty
- Effects of side winds on stability
- Icing allowances plus effects on trim and stability
- Type A, Type B, and Type (B-60) vessels plus FL and PL curves (as governed by DfT regulations)
- Load lines and freeboard marks
- Timber ship freeboard marks
- IMO grain rules for the safe carriage of grain in bulk
- Angle of loll
- True mean draft
- The inclining experiment plus fluctuations in a ship's lightweight
- The calibration book plus soundings and ullages
- Dry docking and grounding
- Liquid pressure and thrust plus centres of pressure
- Ship squat in open water and in confined channels
- Interaction, including two case studies
- Heel due to turning
- Rolling, pitching and heavy motions
- Synchronous rolling and parametric rolling of ships
- List due to bilging side compartments
- Effect of change of density on draft and trim
- List with zero metacentric height
- The deadweight scale
- The trim and stabilty book
- Simplified stability information
- The stability pro-forma
- Nomenclature of ship terms
- Photographs of merchant ships
- Ships of this millennium
- Bending of beams
- Bending of ships
- Strength curves for ships
- Bending and shear stresses
- Draft surveys
- Quality control plus the work of ship purveyors
- Extracts from the 1998 Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations Reference Number MSN 1752 (M)
- Keeping up to date
- Summary of stability formulae
- SQA / MCA 2004 syllabuses for masters and mates
- Specimen exam questions with marking scheme
- 100 revision one-liners
- How to pass exams in maritime studies.