Cover -- Introduction to Naval Architecture, Fourth Edition -- Contents -- Preface to the fourth edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Ships -- Naval architecture and the naval architect -- The impact of computers -- 2 Ship design -- The requirements -- Design -- Costs -- Developing the design -- The design process -- Analysis of a design -- Availability -- The impact of technology and computers -- Some general design attributes -- Safety -- Damage scenarios -- Action by the designer -- The safety case -- Vulnerability -- Summary -- 3 Definition and regulation -- Definition -- The geometry -- Representing the hull form -- Hull characteristics -- Displacement and tonnage -- Displacement -- Deadweight -- Tonnage -- Regulation -- Load lines -- Passenger ships -- The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) -- Classification societies -- Impact of rules and regulations on design -- Accident investigations -- Summary -- 4 Ship form calculations -- Approximate integration -- Trapezoidal rule -- Simpson's rules -- Other Simpson's rules -- Tchebycheff's rules -- General -- Polar co-ordinates -- Spreadsheets -- Summary -- 5 Flotation and initial stability -- Equilibrium -- Equilibrium of a body floating in still water -- Underwater volume -- Stability at small angles -- Transverse metacentre -- Transverse metacentre for simple geometrical forms -- Metacentric diagrams -- Longitudinal stability -- Hydrostatic curves -- Fully submerged bodies -- Problems in trim and stability -- Determination of displacement from observed draughts -- Longitudinal position of the centre of gravity -- Direct determination of displacement and position of G -- Heel due to moving weight -- Wall-sided ship -- Influence on stability of a freely hanging weight -- Free surfaces -- Effect of liquid free surfaces -- The inclining experiment -- Summary.

6 The external environment -- Water and air -- Wind -- Waves -- Regular waves -- Irregular wave systems -- Energy spectra -- Wave statistics -- Freak waves -- Other extreme environments -- Marine pollution -- Summary -- 7 Stability at large angles -- Atwood's formula -- Stability curves -- Curves of statical stability -- Metacentric height in the lolled condition -- Cross curves of stability -- Deriving curves of statical stability from the cross curves -- Features of the statical stability curve -- Weight movements -- Transverse movement of weight -- Dynamical stability -- Stability standards -- Loading conditions -- Flooding and damaged stability -- Sinkage and trim when a compartment is open to the sea -- Stability in the damaged condition -- Asymmetrical flooding -- Floodable length -- Summary -- 8 Launching, docking and grounding -- Launching -- The building slip -- The building blocks -- The groundways -- Sliding ways and cradles -- The launch -- Sideways launching -- Docking -- Docking in a graving dock -- Floating docks -- Shiplifts -- Economics -- Stability when docking -- Grounding -- Stability on grounding -- Summary -- 9 Resistance -- Fluid flow -- Types of resistance -- Wave-making resistance -- Frictional resistance -- Eddy making resistance -- Appendage resistance -- Wind resistance -- Calculation of resistance -- ITTC method -- Wetted surface area -- Methodical series -- Roughness -- Form parameters and resistance -- Length -- Prismatic coefficient -- Fullness of form -- Slimness -- Breadth to draught ratio -- Longitudinal distribution of displacement -- Length of parallel middle body -- Section shape -- Bulbous bow -- Triplets -- Model experiments -- Full scale trials -- Effective power -- Summary -- 10 Propulsion -- General principles -- Extension of effective power concept -- Propulsors -- Momentum theory -- The screw propeller.

A helicoidal surface -- Propeller thrust and torque -- Blade element theory -- Presentation of propeller data -- Thrust and torque -- Coefficients for presenting data -- Open water tests -- Hull efficiency elements -- The propeller behind the ship -- Determining hull efficiency elements -- Cavitation -- Comparing ship and model under cavitating conditions -- Cavitation number -- Occurrence and effects of cavitation -- The cavitation tunnel -- Other propulsor types -- Controllable pitch propeller -- Self pitching propellers -- Surface piercing propellers -- Shrouded or ducted propellers -- Pump jets -- Contra-rotating propellers (CRPs) -- Azimuthing propellers -- Vertical axis propeller -- Water jet propulsion -- Paddle wheels -- Wind -- Ship trials -- Speed measurement -- Determining speed through the water -- Trial condition -- Plotting trials data -- Wake fraction from ship trials -- Main machinery power -- Summary -- 11 Ship dynamics -- The basic responses -- Oscillatory motion -- Ship motions -- Added mass and damping -- Ship vibrations -- Flexural vibrations -- Torsional vibration -- Coupling -- Calculations -- Formulae for ship vibration -- Direct calculation of vibration -- Approximate formulae -- Vibration levels -- Amplitudes of vibration -- Checking vibration levels -- Reducing vibration -- Vibration testing of equipment -- Summary -- 12 Seakeeping -- Seakeeping qualities -- Motions -- Speed and powering -- Wetness -- Slamming -- Ship motions -- Motions in regular waves -- Presentation of motion data -- Motions in irregular seas -- Energy spectra -- Limiting factors -- Speed in waves -- Slamming -- Wetness -- Propeller emergence -- Human performance -- Overall seakeeping performance -- Acquiring seakeeping data -- Wave data -- Obtaining the response amplitude operators -- Deriving the motions -- Deducing criteria -- Effect of ship form.

Stabilization -- Bilge keels -- Passive tanks -- Active fins -- Active tanks -- Summary -- 13 Manoeuvring -- Directional stability and control -- Manoeuvring -- Turning a ship -- Measures of manoeuvrability -- The turning circle -- The zig-zag manoeuvre -- The spiral manoeuvre -- The pull-out manoeuvre -- Manoeuvring devices -- Rudder types -- Rudder forces and torques -- Ship handling -- Handling at low speed -- Broaching -- Interaction between ships -- Dynamic stability and control of submarines -- Modifying the manoeuvring performance -- Underwater vehicles -- Summary -- 14 Main hull strength -- Modes of failure -- Stresses -- Nature of the ship's structure -- Forces on a ship -- Forces on a ship in still water -- Forces on a ship in a seaway -- The standard static longitudinal strength approach -- Response of the structure -- Section modulus -- Calculation of section modulus -- Sections with two materials -- Changes to section modulus -- Superstructures -- Standard calculation results -- Stresses associated with the standard calculation -- Shear stresses -- Transverse strength -- Summary -- 15 Structural elements -- Strength of individual structural elements -- Buckling -- Stress concentrations -- Built-in stresses -- Fatigue -- Cracking and brittle fracture -- Dynamics of longitudinal strength -- Statistical recording at sea -- Effective wave height -- Horizontal flexure and torsion -- Load-shortening curves -- Finite element analysis -- Structural safety -- Corrosion -- Corrosion protection -- Types of corrosion -- Protection against corrosion -- Summary -- 16 The internal environment -- Important factors -- Ship motions and seasickness -- Temperature and humidity -- Vibration -- Noise -- Shock -- Illumination -- Summary -- 17 Ship types -- Economics and technology -- Merchant ships -- General cargo ships -- Container ships.

Roll-on roll-off ships (Ro-Ro ships) -- Bulk cargo carriers -- Passenger ships -- Tugs -- Icebreakers and ice strengthened ships -- High speed craft -- Monohulls -- Surface effect ships (SESs) -- Hydrofoil craft -- Rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) -- Comparison of high speed types -- Warships -- Stealth -- Sensors -- Own ship weapons -- Enemy weapons -- Sustaining damage -- Vulnerability studies -- Types of warship -- Summary -- References and Further reading -- GENERAL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SHIP DESIGN -- 3. DEFINITION AND REGULATION -- 4. SHIP FORM CALCULATIONS -- 5. FLOTATION AND INITIAL STABILITY -- 6. THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT -- 7. STABILITY AT LARGE ANGLES -- 8. LAUNCHING, DOCKING AND GROUNDING -- 9. RESISTANCE -- 10. PROPULSION -- 11. SHIP DYNAMICS -- 12. SEAKEEPING -- 13. MANOEUVRING -- 14. MAIN HULL STRENGTH -- 15. STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS -- 16. THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT -- 17. SHIP TYPES -- APPENDIX A: UNITS, NOTATION AND SOURCES -- Appendix A: Units, notation and sources -- UNITS -- NOTATION -- Symbols -- SOURCES -- The Internet -- Learned societies -- International and Government organisations -- References -- Appendix B: The displacement sheet and hydrostatics -- Waterplane and section areas -- Bonjean curves -- Volumes and longitudinal centres of buoyancy -- Metacentric diagram -- Hydrostatic curves -- Appendix C: Glossary of terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Appendix D: The Froude notation -- Froude method of calculating resistance -- Froude applied to example 9.1 -- Appendix E: Questions -- Chapter 2. SHIP DESIGN -- Chapter 3. DEFINITION AND REGULATION -- Chapter 4. SHIP FORM CALCULATIONS -- Chapter 5. FLOTATION AND INITIAL STABILITY -- Chapter 6. THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter 7. STABILITY AT LARGE ANGLES -- Chapter 8. LAUNCHING, DOCKING AND GROUNDING.

Chapter 9. RESISTANCE.