Stability of Ships detailed Syllabus for Marine Engineering (Marine), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU Marine 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Marine Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-2) subjects refer to Professional Elective-2 Scheme. The detail syllabus for stability of ships is as follows.
Course Learning Objectives:
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Module – 1
First principles : Length, mass, force, weight, moment etc., Density and buoyancy, Centre of Buoyancy and Centre of Gravity, Design co-efficients: Cb, Cm, Cw, Cp ,TPC and fresh water allowances, Permeability for tanks and compartments ,Fulcrums and weightless beams. Simpson’s Rules – Quadrature : Calculating areas using 1st, 2nd and 3rd rules, VCGs and LCGs of curved figures, Simpsonising areas for volumes and centroids, Comparison with Morrish’s rule, Sub-divided common intervals, Moment of Inertia about amidships and LCF, Moments of Inertia about the centreline
Module – 2
Bending of Beams and Ships: Shear force and bending moment diagrams for beams, Strength diagrams for ships. Transverse Stability (Part 1) : KB, BM, KM, KG and GM concept of ship stability, Proof of BM = I/V, Metacentric diagrams, Small angle stability – angles of heel up to 15, Large angle stability – angles of heel up to 90, Wall-sided format for GZ, Stable, Unstable and Neutral Equilibrium, Moment of weight tables.
Module – 3
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Module – 4
Dry-docking Procedures: Practical considerations of docking a ship, Upthrust P’ and righting moments, Loss in GM. Water and Oil Pressure: Centre of Gravity and Centre of Pressure, Thrust and resultant thrust on lockgates and bulkheads, Simpson’s rules for calculating centre of pressure.
Module – 5
Free Surface Effects: Loss in GM, or Rise in G effects, Effect of transverse subdivisions, Effect of longitudinal subdivisions. Stability Data: Load line rules for minimum GM and minimum GZ, Areas enclosed within a statical stability (S/S) curve, Seven parts on an statical stability (S/S) curve, Effects of greater freeboard and greater beam on an S/S curve, Angle of Loll and Angle of List comparisons, KN cross curves of stability Dynamical stability and moment of statical stability. Information supplied to ships, Typical page from a ship’s Trim & Stability book, Hydrostatic Curves – diagram and use of, Concluding remarks.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Ship Stability for Masters and Mates : Captain D.R. Derrett
- Ship Stability Notes & Examples: Kemp and young
Reference Books:
- K.J. Rawson and E.C Tupper Basic ship theory volume – I & II – 5th edition Butterworth and Heine Mann, London , 2001.
- John Letcher Edited by J. Randolph Paulling, Principles of Naval Architecture Series: The Geometry of Ships, 1st Ed. SNAME, 2009
- Heat Pipes Dunn, P. D. and Reay, D. A., Fourth Edition, Pergamon Press, 1994
For the detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE (Marine) 7th Sem, visit Marine Engineering 7th Sem Subjects.
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