OVERVIEW

Aim of the course is to provide students with methods used to verify the hull girder longitudinal strength.

Additionally, the interactions with applicable international conventions and rules of classification societies on the scantling design of ships.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquired capabilities: global scantling analyses of hull structures and integration of results with local scantling ones

Teaching methods: Lectures and guided exercises in IT class

Assessment method: brief written exercise + oral (including discussion of exercises carried out during the course)

Necessary knowledge: Structural mechanics, Shipbuilding 1 & 2

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures (36 hours) and exercises in IT class (24 hours)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

a) Classification societies rules for ships and offshore structures (www.iacs.org.uk), with emphasis on the recently issued IACS Harmonized Common Structural Rules

b) Lamb T, Editor (2004): Ship Design and Construction, SNAME (ISBN 0-939773-41-4) (Ch. 18 in particular, several figures and diagrams shown in the following are taken from here)

c) Lewis EV, Editor (1988): Principles of Naval Architecture, SNAME (ISBN-13: 978-0939773008)

d) Rawson KJ, Tupper EC (2001): Basic Ship Theory, Butterworth Heinemann (ISBN: 0-7506-5396-5) ( Ch. 6, 7 and 8)

e) Hughes OF, Paik JK (2010): Ship structural analysis and design, SNAME (ISBN 978-0-939773-78-3)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DARIO BOOTE (President)

MARCO GAIOTTI (President)

CESARE MARIO RIZZO (President)

TOMASO GAGGERO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

According to time table of Polytechnic School

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule