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CODE 56996
ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/01
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 2° Semester

OVERVIEW

The course presents the fundamental knowledges about movement and behaviour at sea of monhull fixed keel sailing boats, in order to formulate and develop the design.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Develop the fundamental skills necessary to design sailing boats.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning of the physical phenomena which govern the behaviour of the sailing boat; study of the techniques of experimentation and data acquisition (systematic series, wind tunnel, on board measures, etc); methods of design and performance prediction.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Design criteria

Definition of main characteristics of the boat

Definition of main dimensions – Statistical data and allotrope boats

Approach to the hull design

Principal softwares used for the development of the design

The naval CADs

The technical specification

Rules

CE Directive 2013/53/UE

Meaning of design categories and navigation limits for “natanti” and “imbarcazioni” flying Italian flag

Directives and harmonised rules

Essential requirements

Rules for the classifications of pleasure yachts with length Lh greater than 24 m

The wind

True and apparent wind

Reaches and tacking

Polar diagram of boat speeds

Surfaces and foils suitable for generate control and power

Fluid dynamic force: lift and drag

Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces

Equilibrium

Equilibrium equations

Centre of effort of the submerged part of hull and appendages, CRL

Centre of effort of sails, CE

Balance between centres of effort

Lead of the sail

Balance of the rudder

Stability

Transversal and longitudinal stability at little angles

Dellenbaugh angle and rolling period

Curve of the righting arms

Righting moment in waves

Stability criteria for boats (LH ≤ 24 m) according with european rule ISO 12217-2

Stability criteria for ships (LH > 24 m) according with The Large Commercial Yacht Code (LY3)

Resistance to the motion of the hull

Viscous drag

Wave resistance

The Delft systematic series

Heel resistance

Added resistance

Power of the auxiliary engine

Resistance of the propeller in sail navigation

The appendages: keel and rudder

Flow around a wing

Prandtl’s lifting line theory

Lift and induced resistance of the boat

Winged keels

Canard wings

Tandem keels

Canting keels

Gerritsma e Keuning experiments about interaction between hull and keel

Shape of the section of appendages

Practical design of fins and rudders

Advanced section design

Choose of areas of keel and rudder

Single and double rudders

The sails

The flow around the sail

Shape of the sails

Camber of the sail

Mast interference

Shape of the rigging

Hazen’s model for the aerodynamic of sails and rigging

Motive and lateral power

Statistical parameters of sail plan

Scantling of mast and rigging

Forces on the shrouds

Forces on stays

Choose of cables for shrouds and stays

Mast scantling – Nordic Boat Standard method

Scantling of the boom

Scantling of the spreaders

Holes in the mast

Skene’s method

Components of mast and rigging

Scantling of ballasted keel

Fixed keel at 90° knockdown

Longitudinal grounding

Scantling of ballasted keel according to ISO 12215-9

Scantling of the rudder

Scantling of the rudder according to ISO 12215-8

Scantling of deck fittings

Loads on sheets and halyards

The system of handling of fore sail

The system of handling of main sail

The winches

Notes of fluid mechanic

Bernoulli’s equation

Effect of friction on flow schemes

Circulation and Magnus effect

The Flettner’s rotor

Generation of lift by a wing

Kutta-Joukowsky’s hypothesys

The performance predition

The performance predition softwares

Calculus methodology of VPP

On board plants

Bilge plant

Black and gray waters plant

Fuel plant

Fresh water plant

GPL plant

Appendixes (only for information, not included in the examination program)

Types of sails and rigging

Nomenclature

Reaches and tacking

The wind

The waves

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

L.Larsson, R.Eliasson, M.Orych “Principles of Yacht Design”, 4a ed., International Marine / McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.

C.A.Marchaj, “Aero-Idrodinamica della Vela”, Mursia, 1987

P. E. Liguori, “Le vele”, Hoepli, 2006

R. Garret, “Fisica della vela”, Zanichelli, 1994

I. H. Abbot, A. E. von Doehnoff, L. S. Stivers jr, “Summary of airfoil data”, NACA

Offshore Racing Congress, “ORC VPP Documentation”, ORC 2017

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

PAOLO PONSICCHI (President)

DARIO BOOTE

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second half-year

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Viva voce exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Registration by Aulaweb, mandatory at least three days before exam.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
18/01/2018 09:30 LA SPEZIA Orale
08/02/2018 09:30 LA SPEZIA Orale
14/06/2018 09:30 LA SPEZIA Orale
05/07/2018 09:30 LA SPEZIA Orale
13/09/2018 09:30 LA SPEZIA Orale