OVERVIEW

Naval ships are the essential tool for the exercise of a state's Sea Power, both in peacetime and in conflict situations. The operating modes and special requirements that naval vessels must meet constitute a design challenge that requires dedicated treatment. This teaching aims to provide the student with the basis for understanding the design issues specific to military ships.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to illustrate the main types of surface and underwater military units. The teaching deals with the main engineering problems related to military constructions: buoyancy, stability, choice of the propulsion system, dimensioning of plants and structures.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the teaching you will be able to:

• Describe the main military naval units, identifying their role and operational capabilities
• llustrate the operation of major components of combat and platform systems
• Interpret design choices in light of typical military ship requirements (survivability, CSI, etc...)
• Schematize and illustrate simple architectures of combat and platform systems in relation to a requirement
• Describe phenomena, relationships, geometries, and arrangements using equations, diagrams, and drawings
• Use technical vocabulary appropriate to the military naval context
• Produce a technical report in accordance with an assigned template and present its contents

PREREQUISITES

Knowledge of the contents of the Year I and II teachings, with particular reference to physics, applied mechanics, and characterizing subjects.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, active learning, conduct and discussion of numerical exercises, writing and presentation of a technical report in "conference" session.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Introduction: Definition of Naval Ship, Sea Power, Elements of Law of the Sea, Regulatory Framework

Classification and taxonomy of military ships, basic elements, operational capabilities AAW, ASW, AsuW

RADAR systems (Principles of electromagnetics and antennas, radar equation, estimation and interpretation of typical parameters, examples of typical applications)

SONAR Systems (Principles of acoustics, hydrophone fundamentals, sonar equation, examples of typical applications)

Weapon systems and components, weapon delivery systems, combat system integration, examples of typical architectures

Damage prediction, air explosion, underwater explosions

The platform: principles of propulsion systems and redundancy, typical naval ships structural solutions, vulnerability, protection against fire and flooding, recoverability

Susceptibility and signatures

Submarines: generalities, combat systems, attitude and compensation system, typical structural solutions, generation and propulsion system

Principles of autonomous systems UxV / AxV

Group or individual work: writing an in-depth technical report on a topic covered in the lecture and presentation to colleagues

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Teaching materials provided by the lecturer.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Consult the academic calendar of the course of study.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The examination consists of two parts:

Writing a technical report in accordance with a template (submission by the end of the teaching) and subsequent presentation and discussion of the paper with slides in a “conference” session on a single date set at the end of the teaching. The report (max 3 points on the final grade) and the oral presentation of its contents (other max 3 points on the final grade) are optional but contribute to the exam grade.

Oral exam with two open questions on the course syllabus. A sufficiency of both answers is required to pass the exam. The maximum grade for the oral exam is 26/30.

The final grade is the sum of the points earned in the tests described above.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The technical report will assess the ability to describe, synthesize and interpret information related to topics related to those covered in the teaching, as well as to synthesize such information following a template.

The oral presentation will allow the ability to illustrate a specific topic using appropriate language, and to respond to requests for clarification from other participating colleagues in the “conference” session.

The oral oral examination aims to test the student's ability to argue about the topics learned and to illustrate the more conceptual and theoretical aspects. The use of the blackboard allows to verify the student's ability to express himself with the help of graphical representations and equations. Finally, the test allows for testing the student's ability to make simple approximate quantitative assessments in the absence of data and computational tools.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For other information not listed on the sheet, please contact the teacher.