CODE 101128 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 2 MARITIME SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 10948 (L-28) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/02 LANGUAGE English TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course presents main elements of shipbuilding, ranging from description of ship types and their hull structural lay-outs and equipment, to its scantling design methods as well as structural design rules and ship in service management and maintenance. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The teaching unit aims at providing students with practical skill and expertise about fundamentals of shipbuilding and the ship structural design and analysis process from a global view to construction details, showing typical assessment approaches and languages, i.e. structural plans and drawings, used to describe the hull, its structural lay-out, its components and equipment. Various merchant ship types are presented, highlighting peculiarities of each. Rules and regulations of classification societies are presented from the life cycle management perspective, starting from shipbuilding in shipyard, overviewing the inspection, maintenance and repair approaches until life end and scrapping. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The student will have understanding about shipbuilding and ship scantling design, including typical language, i.e. technical ship drawings, and methods for the different merchant ship types. Moreover, the student will know and will be able to properly apply rules of classification societies and requirements of international conventions about ship construction and strength, including those applicable to ship in service and for ship management and maintenance. Part of the theoretical knowledge necessary to develop the competencies required by Functions 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Table A-III/1 and A-III/2 of the STCW Convention (Marine Engineer), as well as Functions 1, 2, and 3 of Table A-II/1 and A-II/2 of the STCW Convention (Deck Officer), is provided. PREREQUISITES Knowledge of basic mathematics and physics concepts, content of the ship stability course TEACHING METHODS Lectures and guided exercises (visits in labs if possible). Totally, 90 hours of lectures. Working students and students with certified SLD (Specific Learning Disorders), disability or other special educational needs are advised to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination arrangements so to take into account individual learning patterns, while respecting the teaching objectives. SYLLABUS/CONTENT The course is approximately divided into three parts as it follows: First part: in this part of the course the ship types are presented first along with their structural lay-outs. The fundamental nomenclature of the shipbuilding sector, the general definitions and components of the hull, main dimensions and characteristic shape coefficients are defined. In addition, displacement, light ship, deadweight, net weight, load line, tonnage and the division of the displacement into elementary weights are analysed in detail. Finally, the shipbuilding technical drawing methodologies are explained and real structural drawings are illustrated. Second part: in this part of the course main hull scantling design principles and criteria are presented. The basis of the simple beam theory is introduced and its application to the ship structures is presented. The main loads acting on the ship, both at local and global level, are carefully analysed together with the main limit states used for the design of ship structures. Particular attention will be given to the ship global structural response and the basis for the calculation of still water shear force and bending moments will be given to help students understanding the background of loading management software. Third part: in the last part of the course, the ship-in-service issues are presented. At first, applicable international conventions (i.e. SOLAS, MARPOL, ILO conventions, etc.) as well as rules of classification societies are analysed in detail, focussing on statutory requirements and classification concept. The organization of maritime management regime of a ship since her construction, rules & regulations, class roles, shipyard and shipowner position are reviewed mainly referring to documentation of IACS and its members. Classification of ships and certification of equipment and components are outlined. Ship’s typical degradation modes in operation for each type of ships and relevant inspection and maintenance countermeasures are later presented, including description of phenomena and testing techniques for detection of main damages of ship structures (corrosion, fracture, fatigue, mechanical damages, collapse). RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Classification societies rules for ships and offshore structures (www.iacs.org.uk), with emphasis on the recently issued IACS Harmonized Common Structural Rules as well as procedural (PR) and unified requirements (UR) and Recommendations (Rec.). Klaas Van Dokkum, Ship Knowledge, Dokmar Maritime Publishers B.V. (2013), ISBN-13: 978-9071500251 J K Paik & R E Melchers Editors: Condition assessment of aged structures (2008), ISBN: 9781845693343 Yasuhisa Okumoto, Yu Takeda, Masaki Mano, Tetsuo Okada, 2009. Design of Ship Hull Structures. A Practical Guide for Engineers, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-88444-6, DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88445-3 Alaa Mansour, Donald Liu, 2008. Strength of Ships and Ocean Structures, The Principles of Naval Architecture Series Published by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 601 Pavonia Avenue Jersey City, NJ Yong Bai, 2003. Marine Structural Design, Elsevier. ISBN: 0-08-043921-7 TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD TOMASO GAGGERO Ricevimento: Students can fix an appointment by e-mail with the lecturer. TATIANA PAIS Ricevimento: Upon request by contacting the professor by email ( tatiana.pais@unige.it ) GIANMARCO VERGASSOLA Ricevimento: Office hours are fixed by email and they are in-person only Exam Board TOMASO GAGGERO (President) TATIANA PAIS (President Substitute) CESARE MARIO RIZZO (President Substitute) LESSONS LESSONS START https://corsi.unige.it/10948/p/studenti-orario Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral discussing all topics presented during the course and the reports of exercises developed during the lectures. Further details will be given during lectures. ASSESSMENT METHODS Oral examination will start discussing the practical exercise and will continue to ascertain comprehension of theoretical content of the course. It is checked the student knows all main topics presented and understood relations among each other. Application examples are proposed to verify whether the student is able to use the content of the course in typical professional scenarios. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 10/01/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale 28/01/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale 12/02/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale 13/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale 27/06/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale 16/07/2025 08:30 GENOVA Orale 09/09/2025 09:00 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION Preferably, contact professors by e-mail Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals Quality education Gender equality Life below water