 Everyone has own idea and opinion of what exactly human factors are. The reason for that is molding of the everyone's perspective with the particular field. Subject field can be design or experimental research, cognitive theory or acquisition, biology, anthropology or any other. Nowadays there is a driving demand for the naval specialists to focus on such important aspect as human factor.
Regretfully, the number of marine accidents continues to increase with the main cause being human error. It can be designer's or operator's error. The situation is worsened because of the decreasing manning of the vessels, lack of duly experienced operators, and operations carried out in high seas; you should also take into account the fatigue. One of the potential solutions could be automation; however the fact is that flawed automation system contribute to the maritime accidents.
The present publication is devoted to the human factors for the design and operation of the naval marine vehicles. The author has addressed the main aspects involved, including types of the marine vehicles, their functions and associated limitations and solutions, human stressors, areas of concern, enhancement of the human factors, HMI, standing for the human-machine interface, important design considerations and future trends.
 Here are the lecture notes for the Ship Structure course intended to facilitate the development of the good technical knowledge of the structure of the ship's hull. The main focus has been made by the authors of the course on the different types of the structural behavior on the basis of the fundamental concepts of mechanics of materials.
The content of the course is covering the design and assessment as well as drawing and reporting on the scantlings of the ship, i.e. design of the hull girder applied to the large vessels. Another important goal of the course is the development of the trainees' ability of making educated guess based on the good reasoning and very careful approximation of the problem.
The set consists of two courses. The first course No. 5003 addresses the structural features of the vessel, mechanical behavior, longitudinal strength and bean theory and associated equations, force and displacement methods applied to the indeterminate beams, shear stresses, torsion, plate bending, structural analysis methods, moment distribution, and other aspects.
This all is continued in the second course No. 6003 dealing with the elastic plate behavior, plastic and elastic bending, elastic buckling, local and overall stiffener buckling, fatigue and fracture problems, strain rate effects, engineering safety metrics, buckling of transverse and longitudinal plate panels, hot spot fatigue analysis, risk analysis, laterally loaded plates and other topics considered important.
 The present publication was originally intended to serve as a reference tool for all students of ship design and professional designers. The book details every important aspect of the design of ships and design integration, highlighting the matters that shall be put together in order for the whole product to be generated.
The volume discussed the applications and technical principles of marine engineering and naval architecture considered relevant to the design of the ship hull systems, examining the advanced numerical methods to be applied to the marine design at the stage of concept design, and offering a truly comprehensive approach to the design of the ships. The content of the book is covering the entire sphere of ship design. The volume opens with the intro to the ship design and marine environment - in this chapter the author describes the marine products commonly used for the transportation and exploitation of the various marine sources as well as for defending them.
The author has also provided a clear explanation of the engineering economics together with its real-life applications, supplementing the theoretical information with practical examples. He has used his thirty-five years of experience to make the book better and more useful. The ship design aspects directly related to the safety/risk assessment have also been addressed along with the discussion of the ship design principles for their sustainability...
 Nowadays, the process of developing the marine structures is slowly moving into the deep offshore areas, and the main reason for that is a continuously growing demand for the offshore exploration of oil and gas. the designers of the marine structures are trying to discover a need to re-check the fundamental technical concepts since they anticipate the behavior of marine structures to the increased depths of the water.
The present publication aims to provide a simplified and easily understandable approach to this subject and explain the basic and advanced concepts of marine structure design; the author has also tried to outline the different stages of the analysis and design of various marine structures. The content of the volume has been worked out from the perspective of structural engineering; the author is mainly focusing on the marine structures built for the offshore exploration, ultimate load design, fracture, fatigue, environmental loads etc.
He is also offering the readers finely detailed technical descriptions of different types of forms together with the functions and limitations of the offshore units. The text part of the volume incorporates several examples illustrating the use of various numerical, experimental and analytical studies...
 This publication was prepared with the intention to fill a gap in the knowledge that exists there in the general industry literature available today on port/harbor engineering and aims to provide the practicing engineers with the necessary background information which they need in order to be able to design various these structures for the berthing of the vessels, their mooring, and necessary repair works.
The volume contains a thorough introductory part and should also be very useful to all parties involved in shipping operations such as port authority engineers, port planners, marine contractors and terminal operators. The chapters of this valuable book provide necessary information of ship's dimensions and characteristics, general ship design considerations, operational/environmental loads, design of the berthing loads plus fender systems as well as various fixed and floating structures, etc.
Different types of the drydocks have been covered in the pages of this handbook, together with the procedures for assessment of such structures. The text is supplemented with nearly two hundred ship line drawings and more than fifty color photographs, numerous informative graphs and data tables enabling readers to better catch the material presented. All relevant standards and regulations have also been addressed and referenced where necessary.
 This document was officially released with the intention to provide the design policy and effective procedures for the mooring design for U.S. DOD vessels. The main purpose of the volume is to ensure the safety, quality and consistency of the vessels serving DOD with the due attention paid to their mooring arrangements. The mooring itself is generally defines as a structure restraining a vessel's movement against the actions of winds, waves and current forces.
The main emphasis in this document has been placed on the moorings that are composed of tension and compression members used to secure ships. While the opening part of the document is introductory, its second part provides the information related to the different types of mooring systems and the third part is devoted to the basic design procedures including design criteria and methods, design and operational considerations, maintenance and inspection, and general mooring guidelines.
The next two parts are devoted to the static forces and moments, and to the established procedures of the anchor system design. The rest of the document is dealing with the key components of the mooring systems, catenary behavior, fixed and spread mooring, etc. The glossary of terms is also included.
 One of the most important tasks in the shipping industry is the education of the ship officers and improvement of the maneuverability of the ships, that is why the requirements applicable to these activities play the critical role in the increasing of the safety at sea. In turn, this has increased the industry interest in numerical simulators considered a very strong tool to be used during the investigation of the ship's maneuverability and also for training purposes.
As a result, stronger requirements have been established concerning the reliability of the maneuvering models on which the mechanisms of the simulator is based on, as well as to their accuracy and overall technical quality. The simulators have proven effective, but it shall be noted that there are several areas where some additional knowledge would be appreciated and useful for improvement of the models.
And one of such areas would be the interaction between the ship's rudder, her propeller and hull, playing a top role in successful modeling of the ship's maneuvering. The present document is fully devoted to this problem and its content will be interesting for the people dealing with scientific investigations and researches in this area.
 The present publication is in fact a nice collection of selected technical papers that reflect the teaching materials intended for use during the MNA (Master of Naval Architecture) course that was, in turn, developed in the European ASDEPP project. This abbreviation stands for the advanced ship design for the prevention of pollution.
Among the topics covered within this publication are the structural reliability and strength of the vessel, collision and grounding of the vessel treated as the criteria in design of the various structures of the vessel, modeling of the various environmental loads, application of the probabilistic approach to the damage stability of the vessel, and others.
The content of the work is showing the latest developments and scientific trends in contemporary naval architecture. The book shall definitely be considered a very valuable source of reference information for the naval architects, engineers, students and all other people engaged in the design and maintenance of the vessels and other marine constructions.
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