Ship stability for masters and mates / D.R. Derrett.
By: Derrett, D. R
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BookPublisher: London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991Edition: 4th ed.Description: 390 p. : ill. ; 23cm + hbk.ISBN: 0750603801.Subject(s): Stability of shipsDDC classification: 623.8171
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ship Stability for Masters and Mates covers the subject of ship stability for students preparing for examinations leading to the Department of Transport's Certificates of Competency for Deck Officers at the various Class levels. A textbook and reference covering the subject of ship stability in depth in 41 chapters plus appendices. Careful attention to basic principles together with generous provision of worked examples, and exercise questions with answers, ensure that the student who works through this book will have a clear grasp of stability problems and calculations. Up-to-date syllabuses and examination papers are included.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Forces and moments
- Centroids and the centre of gravity
- Density and specific gravity
- Laws of floatation
- Effect of density on draft and displacement
- Transverse statical stability
- Effect of free surface of liquids on stability
- TPC and displacement curves
- Form coefficients
- Simpson's rules for areas and centroids
- Final KG
- Calculating KB, BM, and metacentric diagrams
- List
- Moments of statical stability
- Trim
- Stability and hydrostatic curves
- Increase in draft due to list
- Water pressure
- Combined list and trim
- Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids
- Bilging and permeability
- Dynamical stability
- Effect of beam and freeboard on stability
- Angle of loll
- True mean draft
- The inclining experiment
- Effect of trim on tank soundings
- Drydocking and grounding
- Second moments of areas
- Liquid pressure and thrust
- Centres of pressure
- Metacentric height at the angle of loll
- Heel due to turning
- Unresisted rolling in still water
- List due to bilging side compartments
- Radial integration by Simpson's rules
- Launching
- Effect of change of density on draft and trim
- List with zero metacentric height
- Tchebycheff's rules Shear force and bending moments
- Murray's Method
- Simplified stability information