Course details

Ship Structural Design

Teaching: Completely taught in English

ECTS: 3

Level: Graduate

Semester: Winter

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites

Load:

Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
30		0	3	0	0	12	0	0

Course objectives:

Advanced methods for ship structural design. Application of MARS, MAESTRO, FEMAP software.

Student responsibilities:

Orderly attendance of lectures and exercises, as well as independent project draft.

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Evaluation of project/seminar.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

1 . Distinguish different mathematical models for the calculation of ship structures

2 . Categorize the different phases in the calculation of ship structures

3 . Compare and evaluate different project variants with regard to mass and cost

4 . Evaluate different stiffening system of ship structurs w.r.t buckling capability

5 . Analyze the specifics of the calculation of the primary strength of passenger ships

6 . Evaluirati utjecaj izbora konstrukcijskog materijala na kvalitetu projektnog rješenja

Lectures

1. Introduction. Basic aspects of ship structural design.

2. Identification of design problem for ship structure - design space, attribute space. Principles of design model formulation.

3. Calculation models for ship structural response.

4. Design of plates

5. Design of stiffeners

6. Design of pillar and girders

7. Buckling of plates and beams

8. Hull girder strength of ships with a large superstructure

9. Hull girder ultimate strength calculation as a design criteria

10. Selection of framing system and material

11. Basic of optimization methods

12. Relevant technical Rules for structural design by direct calculation.

13. Structural design by direct calculation requirement- Part 1 - Three Hold FE models

14. Structural design by direct calculation requirement- Part 2- Hatch cover design

15. Structural design by direct calculation requirement- Part 3- Full ship example

Exercises

1. Definition of project.

2. Design of Midship section using MARS software- Basic Input data

3. Design of Midship section using MARS software- Input of structural data

4. Design of Midship section using MARS software- Results evaluation

5. Example problem solving.

6. Example problem solving.

7. Example problem solving.

8. Example problem solving.

9. Example problem solving.

10. Example problem solving.

11. Example problem solving.

12. Example problem solving.

13. Example problem solving.

14. Example problem solving.

15. Evaluation of the example problem solution.

Compulsory literature:

1. Ship structural design, lecture notes, Jerolim Andrić, Pero Prebeg, Interno, 2022, p. 0-0

2. Design of Ship Hull Structures, Y. Okumoto, Y. Takeda, M. Mano, T. Okada, Springer, 2010, p. 1-573

Recommended literature:

3. Ship structural design and analysis, O. F. Hughes, J. K. Paik, SNAME, New Jersey, USA., 2010, p. 1-428