 This is a remarkably comprehensive and easy to use reference book bringing the fundamental information required for better understanding of the design and performance of ships. the content of the volume is covering all major technical aspects involved and includes the exam one-liners. Note that the readers are not expected to have some deep knowledge of the ship design as pre-requisite.
Instead, it helps to build up their understanding key elements of the vessel design together with their impact on the performance and to find the ways of how to maximize subject performance. the book was prepared by the recognized marine engineering expert presenting the fundamental formulas and facts backed up by the theoretical information, informative illustrations and photos.
Numerous examples of the contemporary ship designs have been included. Among the items addresses there are general particulars of the vessels, their types, speed and powering, ship propeller design, behavior of ship in restricted waters etc. We would definitely say that this volume is a perfect textbook for the students providing easily accessible information which may also interest practicing specialists.
 Featuring a content prepared by the group of recognized and well respected authorities in a world of shipbuilding, this excellent publication is a perfect reference for all naval architects, ship constructors, ship designers and marine engineers - in fact for every single person interested in or working in the marine industry. The main emphasis has been made by the author of the volume upon the construction and design of the vessels in order to fulfill several specific missions.
Apart from the purely theoretical chapters such as the chapters on naval architecture principles, structural components of the ship's hull, analysis and design of the principal structures and ship construction fundamentals, the book also addresses the established ship construction practices and effective procedures, welding, assembly, launching and outfitting of the newly constructed ship, materials used for construction, applicable rules, regulations and standards, up to the sea trials and preparation of the vessel for delivery.
A glossary of the commonly used ship construction and design terminology is also included for easier use of the book. In short, we can say that this volume is definitely the most comprehensive one of those devoted to the ship design principles and major construction techniques.
 The main intention of the author of this volume treated as one of the best ship construction textbooks available today, is to provide the readers with the basic theoretical knowledge that is necessary for those willing to get to the thorough technical understanding of the ship construction problems.
It will be a great source for the students of ship building, ship repair, and many other specialties connected with ship technology and marine-related sciences. It will be particularly useful for the students engaged in BTEC programs preparing to start their careers at sea. The content of the book covers literally everything starting from the fundamental theoretical information about the basic elements of the ships, their types, constructional features, their hulls and shipboard systems, outfitting items etc.
Then the book covers all shipyard practices, joining metals, means of control, and even international regulations governing the construction of ships. We are all aware of the significant changes that took place in the ship construction industry in the past decades, such as the introduction of several brand new construction technologies, and one of the main aims of the present volume is to describe most of the contemporary shipyard techniques to the readers with due attention being paid to the basic theoretical principles.
 This title represents a significantly updated version of the original edition published about thirty years ago. The authors did their best to describe the application of the welding symbols in BS EN 22553 British/European Standard, ISO 2553 International Standard, and U.S. ANSI/AWS A2.4-98.
The publication will provide a review of the content of ISO/AWS standards; it also compares subject standards. Nowadays, there are thousands of engineering drawings in use, and all of them have plenty of symbols. The book addresses the most important differences between standards covering the welding symbols, provides the most up-to-date information on the AWS and ISO standards, and also contains numerous examples of how the welding symbols are applied on the engineering drawings.
The book will be of great practical importance and use for the practicing engineers as well as for the students, i.e. for anyone dealing with the preparation of the engineering drawings in accordance with the recognized standards and with their further use. Since it is quite clear that virtually no engineering activity can take place without the drawings, the book is expected to be well met by all engineering fields.
 The content of the publication was prepared to guide the practicing naval architects and students of naval architecture from the original theoretical principles of control surface operation up to the use of the various empirical and experimental data as well as the applied CFD modeling of the ship rudders and control surfaces.
The methods that are commonly applied to the control surface design have been described in this publication in detail and their application to the particular design cases has been clearly explained. All of the design procedures covered have been supplemented with numerous informative working examples. In fact, this is the only publication available today on the subject, and it will provide readers with the valuable technical information related to the theoretical and practical design which will be particularly useful to the engineers and designers.
The text of the volume has been accompanied with the online database of the information obtained in the course of the experiments. Please have a close look in this book especially if you are engaged in the design of marine rudders or planning to get involved in the design and engineering activities.
 This book should definitely be recommended to the beginners studying ship dynamics as well as to many practicing ship designers who are in doubt about the fundamentals of ship dynamics. The author of the volume has used very simple language when explaining the basics of the subject in order to make the complex nature of vessel behaviors easily understood by the people without serious theoretical knowledge and experience.
The text of the book has been supplemented with many practical calculations. The book may actually be used even by the people having no idea about the ship dynamics - anyone can start learning using this volume and get to quite serious level. The formulas that have been given for the vessel motion responses under the various conditions of the sea have been found to be very authentic and matching to the results commonly obtained using the expensive computer software...
 We highly recommend you to try this training resource if you are a naval architect or ship constructor or any other person dealing with the ship structure. The content of this training course covering the ship hull structures was specifically developed by the specialists of DNV, one of the leading class societies in the world.
Trainees who have satisfactorily completed this course, will get all necessary technical knowledge of the fundamental ship hull strength and will gain thorough understanding of how to perform the inspections of the hull correctly.
The main intention of the developers of this course was to explain the basics of the ship hull structure to all technical personnel working on board the vessels or stationed ashore, and they have been considered the target audience for this training course. Particular focus has been made on the bulk carriers and oil tankers.
Start working with this course and you will see that once even the first part of it has been completed, you will much better understand the behavior of loaded simple beams with corresponding shear forces/moments, the applicable local/global loads acting on the vessel hull girder and some other fundamental things. And then, proceeding from one part to another, you will improve your skills and knowledge...
 The book is dedicated to the marine structures and addresses the most important aspects of their analysis and technical design. The authors of the present publication containing the papers presented in the course of the MARSTRUCT 2009, are exploring the very recent developments, in fact the same way they do it in the "Advances in Marine Structures" publication.
The content of the work is arranged in a same way. The book is recommended to all persons involved in the design and analysis of various offshore structures and shall be used as a valuable source of reference information by the students, practicing offshore engineers and other professionals.
Again, among the topics covered there are strength assessment, load effects, fabrication of the marine structures together with the materials used for fabrication, structural reliability of the structures, as well as various environmental and safety matters.
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