Ship design

Overall Design Considerations

Vessel types

Design Process and Constraints

Design methods and techniques

Design Project Planning

Decision making

General Arrangement

Weight control

Ship Structural Design

Structural design loads

Global Response in waves

Strength evaluation

Structural systems

Design of various structural elements

Moment of inertia and section modulus of Hull structure

Combined Vertical and horizontal bending

The Design report

Preliminary Design Project

Ship Hull Form Design

Hull form

Sea-keeping qualities and criteria

Manoeuvring

Dynamic positioning

Propulsion

Propeller performance and design considerations

Admirality coefficient

Roughness and fouling (hull and propeller)

Monitoring ship performance

Ship Systems

Primary machinery; Diesel engine, gas turbines

Propulsion trains; Diesel-mechanical, Diesel-electric

Auxiliary machinery

Ship service systems

Shafting and propellers

Steering gear

Instrumentation and control

Læringsutbytte - Kunnskap:

The course will give the student knowledge about the trade-offs and compromises different aspects of ship design brings in the concept stage of the creation of a ship.   

Læringsutbytte - Ferdigheter:

 The student will get an overall understanding on how the various design criteria for a vessel affects the overall ship design. He/she will in addition be able to do multi discipline high level analyses to document the feasibility of their own developed ship concept design.   

Læringsutbytte - Kompetanse:

The student will be familiar with the ship concept design process and its terminology.

Pedagogiske metoder:

Class room lectures, homework, assignments and team project work    

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:

 2/3 of the assignments must be approved