The teaching unit deals with the ship buoyancy and stability, with a specific focus on the operational aspects of the ship. Topics are going to be treated both from a theroetical and a practical point of view. The matter plays a siginficant role in the context of ship safety and marine pollution prevention. The lecture cycle covers the requirements for knowledge, understanding and proficiency of the competences addressed by the STCW Code.
The teaching unit provides knowledge about the buoyancy and the stability of ships, both in intact and damaged conditions, with appropriate reference to relevant IMO regulations. Specific attention will be given also to some operational aspects e.g. to cargo handling and stowage.
The teaching unit enables the capability of:
- Evaluate the ship equilibrium in a specific laoding condition and the evaluation of the relevant stability as well;
- Prevent dangerous situations in relation with shift and lift of weights, liquid free surface and inclining effects
- Understand the basic physics of a ship in damaged condition
- Understand the stability requirements for a ship in intact or damage condition
The lecture cycle covers the requirements for knowledge, understanding and proficiency in table A-ll/1,2 (deck officer) of STCW Code for the function Navigation at the Management Level, for the function Cargo Handling and Stowage at the Management Level and the background knowledge to support Controlling the Operation of the Ship and Care for Persons on Board at the Management Level, and the requirements in table A-llI/1,2 (Marine Engineer) for the function Controlling the operation of the ship and care for persons on board at the management level.
The teaching unit contributes to the development of soft-skills, i.e. the alphabetical-functional competence.
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Lectures in classroom;
practical applications together and individually;
interactions and discussion on some selected topics.
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.
The IMO safety rules relevant to the intact and damaged ship stability that are available on aulaweb.
"Ship Hydrostatics and Stability" A.B. Biran - Technion - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Butterworth-Heinemann 2003. (Be careful about notations that might be different)
Ricevimento: On appointment through Teams or e-mail.
Ricevimento: By appointment: email: diego.villa@unige.it phone: 010 335 2345
DIEGO VILLA (President)
BENEDETTO PIAGGIO (President Substitute)
EMILIO PIETRO ARNO TINCANI (President Substitute)
https://corsi.unige.it/10948/p/studenti-orario
Oral exam: discussion of an assignment* previously developed and theoretical questions about the topics developed during the semester.
The assignment and the theoretical questions equally contribute to the final mark.
*The assignment is about basic application of ship hydrostatics and stability (practical calculations)
With the written assignement, students will be requested to give evidence about capability to apply in practice the theorethical methodologies with the proper critical attitude toward results.
Questions of the oral test are aimed to assess the capability of the students to discuss about theorethical and practical aspects of ship hydrostatics and stability.
Specific attention will be given to the capability of indicating the basic assuptions together with the input data, the target of the procedure and its rational developement.
