Basic Naval Architecture

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Team working through laboratory experiment. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C16/M16)
• Ship geometry - lines plan, curve of areas.
• Equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies - volume, centres of buoyancy and gravity
• Dynamic stability - effect of sudden loads, stability criteria.
• Large angle stability - GZ curves and effects of changing hull geometry.
• Properties of irregular shapes - areas, first moments, second moments
• Obtain and accurately analyse data applying your knowledge/understanding of this module (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C12/M12)
• Virtual centres - suspended weights, free surface, stability during docking.
• Launching calculations and curves.
• Initial transverse stability.
• Communicate work accurately in written report format. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C17/M17)
• Numerical integration. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C3/M3)
• Learn through tutorials and begin to learn independently.
• Flooding calculations - added weight, lost buoyancy, floodable length, permeability.
• Problems involving changes of draught and trim.
• Ship parameters - form coefficients, fineness coefficients.
• Longitudinal and transverse metacentres.
• Undertake a laboratory based Inclining experiment. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C12/M12)

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The concept of fairness and its application to ship and boat geometry
• The concepts of static and dynamic stability. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1 )
• The concepts of area, first and second moments of area and their applications to floating bodies. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1)
• The concepts of equilibrium and changes in equilibrium of floating bodies. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1)
• The different types of marine vehicles and identify characteristics influencing their design.
• The use of numerical methods for calculating hydrostatic properties. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1, C3/M3)

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use basic numerical methods, such as Simpson's and trapezium rules and interpolation techniques, to formulate and obtain hydrostatic properties of hull forms. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1)
• Use basic mathematical techniques, such as integration, to formulate and obtain hydrostatic properties of simple geometries. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C1/M1)
• Use simple measurement techniques to obtain data. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C12/M12)
• Realise a concept design of a ship or boat geometry using CAD software and it's presentation as a technical drawing

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of equilibrium of floating bodies. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C2/M2)
• Calculate relevant hydrostatic properties using theoretical and numerical methods. (Contributes to AHEP4 LO: C3/M3)

• Introduction to different types and classifications of marine vehicles and their roles.
• Ship geometry - lines plan, curve of areas.
• Ship parameters - form coefficients, fineness coefficients.
• Equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies - volume, centres of buoyancy and gravity.
• Properties of irregular shapes - areas, first moments, second moments.
• Longitudinal and transverse metacentres.
• Problems involving changes of draught and trim.
• Numerical integration.
• Initial transverse stability.
• Virtual centres - suspended weights, free surface, stability during docking.
• Large angle stability - GZ curves and effects of changing hull geometry.
• Dynamic stability - effect of sudden loads, stability criteria.
• Flooding calculations - added weight, lost buoyancy, floodable length, permeability.
• Launching calculations and curves.
• Inclining experiment.
• Analysis of the results of an inclining experiment to determine the centre of gravity.

Teaching and learning methods

Learning activities include

• Lectures
• Interactive tutorials
• Seminars / guest lectures
• Directed reading
• Example sheets
• Experimentation

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Blackboard. The University Blackboard site for this module is extensively and continuously updated during the delivery of the module with incidents pertinent to the module.

Assessment strategy

The learning outcomes of this module will be assessed under the Part I Assessment Schedule for FEE Engineering Programmes which forms an Appendix to your Programme Specification.

Feedback will be available on the formative work undertaken during the module.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External