Ebook: Ship Structural Analysis and Design

This book focuses on the most complex aspects of ship structural design which is preliminary design and will benefit structural designers and students. The text uses a rationally-based design approach (design from first principles), which is ideally suited to preliminary structural design. One of the advantages of this approach is that, unlike all earlier design methods, it applies to all types of ships. Moreover, this approach allows the designer to achieve an optimum structure, according to their own particular measure of merit, such as least life-cycle cost, least weight, or any combination of these. As in the original book, the underlying theory has been verified through extensive testing and implemented in MAESTRO, a leading ship structural design program.
Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Rationally-Based Structural Design
2. Loads, Structural Response, Limit States, and Optimization
3. Hull Girder Response Analysis - Prismatic Beam
4. Wave Loads - Statistical, Dynamic, and Nonlinear Aspects
5. Reliability-Based Structural Design
6. Frame Analysis
7. Basic Aspects of the Finite Element Method
8. Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
9. Plate Bending
10. Deformation and Strength Criteria for Stiffened Panels under Impact Pressure
11. Buckling Strength and Ultimate of Columns
12. Elastic Buckling of Plates
13. Large Deflection Behavior and Ultimate Strength of Plates
14. Elastic Buckling of Stiffened Panels
15. Large Deflection Behavior and Ultimate Strength of Stiffened Panels
16. Ultimate Strength of Ship Hulls
17. Fatigue of Ship Structural Details
Appendices
Index