Front Cover -- Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- PLENARY LECTURES -- Maritime Safety Culture and Development of Ship and Offshore Installations Design Standards in the 21 st Century -- Structural Safety of Ships -- Shipping Industry in the 21st Century -- PART 1: DESIGN SYNTHESIS FOR SHIPS AND FLOATING SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 1. LIFE CYCLE COST AND SHIPPING SYSTEM -- A Consideration of Life Cycle Cost of a Ship -- The Experiment of River-Sea-Going Ore Barge Fleet and Renovation of Existing Integrated Barge -- CHAPTER 2. DESIGN OPTIMISATION -- Optimization of a Wave Cancellation Multihull Ship Using CFD Tools -- A Module-Oriented Optimization Tool -- The Fine Optimization of Ship Hull Lines in Resistance Performance by Using CFD Approach -- CHAPTER 3. HULL FORM DESIGN -- Parametric Hull Form Design - A Step Towards One Week Ship Design -- Mission Based Hydrodynamic Design of a Hydrographic Survey Vessel -- Hull Form Design of a Passenger Catamaran for Operation in the Yellow Sea Region -- Hull Form Design of Cargo Ship in Shallow and Strong Current Waterways -- CHAPTER 4. NOVEL SHIP CONCEPTS - HIGH SPEED VESSELS -- The Impact Load of Wing-in-Ground-Effect Craft in Waves and Application of Hydro-Ski -- Conceptual Design of Very Large-Size Super-High-Speed Foil Catamaran Containership -- A Practical Application of Air Lubrication on a Small High Speed Boat -- The Hybrid Hydrofoil Stepped Hull -- CHAPTER 5. NOVEL SHIP CONCEPTS - TRIMARAN -- The Design of Trimaran Ships: General Review and Practical Structural Analysis -- Calm Water Experimental Research on Geosims of High Speed Trimaran: Hydrodynamic Characteristics and Model-Ship Correlation -- Trimaran Model Test Results and Comparison with Different High Speed Craft.

Hull Form Development and Powering Performance Characteristics for a 2,500 Ton Class Trimaran -- CHAPTER 6. FLOATING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS -- Design Recommendations from the FPSO - Fatigue Capacity JIP -- Design of FPSOs Based on Maneuvering Stability -- Extreme Response and Fatigue Damage of Ship-Shaped FPSO -- CHAPTER 7. VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES (I) -- An Investigation into Wave Induced Drift Forces and Motions of Very Large Floating Structures -- A Study on the Horizontally Dynamic Behavior of a VLFS Supported with Dolphins -- Experimental Study on the Hydroelastic Response Characteristics of a Pontoon Type Floating Structure -- CHAPTER 8. VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES (II) -- Simulation Study on Coastal Ecosystem Around a Very Large Floating Structure in Tokyo Bay -- Effects of a Draft on Hydroelastic Responses of a Pontoon Type Very Large Floating Structure -- A Study on Deck Wetness and Slamming of Very Large Floating Structures -- CHAPTER 9. SAFETY ASSESSMENT -- Probabilistic Analysis Tools for Surface Ships Under Seaway and Extreme Dynamic Loads -- Comprehensive Fuzzy Approach in Hazard Identification of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) -- Estimating the Risk of Cargo Shifting in Waves - Methodology and Results -- CHAPTER 10. DESIGN PRINCIPLE AND CRITERIA -- Ship Design Using Probabilistic Damage Stability Rules - A Sensitivity Study -- Integration of First-Principle Approaches to Design for Damage Survivability -- Rational Design Criteria and Their Application to Hull Form Optimisation of Floating Systems in Random Seas -- CHAPTER 11. DESIGN METHODS -- The Application of a Decomposition and Reuse Approach in Marine Design -- Evaluating Design for Upgradeability: A Simulation Based Approach for Ships and Marine Products -- Model-Based Simulation for Container Loading / Unloading.

Research on 3D-Layout Design of Ship Compartment Based on CBR -- Development of a Sophisticated Hull Form CAD System 'EzHULL' Based on a Non-Manifold Model and 'X-topology' -- CHAPTER 12. MARINE STRUCTURAL DESIGN -- A Design Modification of VLCC with Wide Web Frame Space -- Optimization of the Design of Ship Structures Using Response Surface Methodology -- CHAPTER 13. APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -- A Study on an Information System of Damages of Ship Structures -- Bayesian and Neural Networks for Preliminary Ship Design -- PART 2: PRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 14. DEVELOPMENT IN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY -- Innovation in Ship Production: What Can We Expect ? -- New Production System for Vessels of Composite Materials Using an Adjustable Mould -- Mobile Agent Based Supply Chain Management in Shipbuilding Industry -- Energy and Environment Dimension in Ship Manufacturing Processes -- CHAPTER 15. FABRICATION MECHANICS -- Study on Heat Transfer Between Gas Flame and Plate During Line-Heating Process -- Study on the Process Technology of Line Heat Forming of Hull Fabrication -- Numerical Simulation of Welding Distortions in Large Steel Structures -- PART 3: HYDROMECHANICS -- CHAPTER 16. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS - FLOW SIMULATION -- Simulation of Viscous Flow of Modern Surface Ships Using the FINFLO RANS Solver -- Viscous Flow Around Rotating Ships -- Numerical Simulation of Flows over Underwater Axisymmetric Bodies with Full Appendages -- Viscous Flow Calculations Used for Dredger Design -- Fully Non-linear Wave Computations for Arbitrary Floating Bodies Using the DELTA Method -- CHAPTER 17. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS - ENVIRONMENT -- Flow Behavior Around Tandem Oil Fences -- A CFD-Based Parametric Study on the Smoke Behaviour of a Typical Merchant Ship.

Application of CFD to Assessment and Design of the Air-Ventilation System in the Reefer Container Holds of Container Carriers -- CHAPTER 18. RESISTANCE -- Wash and Wave Resistance of Ships in Finite Water Depth -- On Scale Effect of the Resistance Due to Stern Waves Including Forward-Oriented Wave Breaking Just Behind a Transom Stern -- Numerical and Experimental Evaluation of the Hull Characteristics of Two-Semi-Displacement Fast Monohulls -- Empirical Prediction of Ship Resistance and Wetted Surface Area Using Artificial Neural Networks -- A New Method for Resistance and Propulsion Prediction of Ship Performance in Shallow Water -- Lower Frictional Resistance Characteristics of Foul Release Systems -- CHAPTER 19. PERFORMANCE -- Evaluation and Computer Program on the Speed Trial Analysis Method of the Ongoing Work in ISO/TC8 -- A Test Procedure and Evaluation Method for Seakeeping Trials with Address to Broaching-To -- Experimental Investigation of Bank Effects under Extreme Conditions -- CHAPTER 20. SEAKEEPING AND RINGING -- Effects of Different Three Dimensional Formulations on the Seakeeping Computations of High Speed Hulls -- Measurement of Ship Motion During Model Tests and Full Scale Seakeeping Trials -- Developing Seakeeping Performance Criteria for a Helicopter Pilot Training Vessel -- Dynamic Behaviour of Rigid Mono- and Multi-Hulled Vessels in Waves, Incorporating Non-Linear Excitation -- Time-Domain Simulations and Measurements of Loads and Motions of Planning High-Speed Craft in Waves -- Analysis of Ringing by Continuous Wavelet Transform -- CHAPTER 21. DECK WETNESS AND IMPACT -- Green Sea and Water Impact on FPSO in Steep Random Waves -- Long Term Prediction Method of Shipping Water Load for Assessment of the Bow Height -- A Practical Design Tool for Wave Impact on Bow and Deck Structures -- CHAPTER 22. SLAMMING AND SLOSHING.

Wave Impact on Decks of Floating Platforms -- Impact Pressure Analysis on High-Speed Craft in Waves, through FE-Analysis on Full-Scale and Model Measurement Data -- Assessment of Sloshing Loads for Tankers -- CHAPTER 23. MANOEUVRABILITY - COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION -- Prediction of Hydrodynamic Forces Acting on Ship Hull in Oblique and Turning Motions by a Simple Surface Panel Method -- A Numerical Study on Viscous Flow About a Ship in Manoeuvring Motion -- Simulation of the Propulsion System Behaviour During Ship Standard Manoeuvres -- CHAPTER 24. MANOEUVRABILITY -- Experimental Study on the Maneuverability for a Wide Beam New Suezmax Class Tanker -- On Steady Horizontal Forces and Moment Due to Short Waves Acting on Ships in Manoeuvring Motion -- An Empirical Formula for Steering Gear Torque of Tankers with a Horn Rudder.