Basic Naval Architecture

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Obtain and accurately analyse data applying your knowledge/understanding of this module
• Learn through tutorials and begin to learn independently.
• Undertake a laboratory based Inclining experiment.
• Numerical integration.
• Team working through laboratory experiment.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Calculate relevant hydrostatic properties using theoretical and numerical methods.
• Understand the basic principles of equilibrium of floating bodies.

Partial CEng Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Two formative laboratory sessions are held, the first explored aspects of Archimedes principle and the second is an experimental inclining laboratory, both designed to complement the theory in the lectures.
• Students are expected to evaluate the results they obtain from first principles hydrostatic calculations and comment on their validity/meaning in the context of the problem they are solving and is assessed in the examination and the computing assignment.
• Students conduct hydrostatic calculations through programming and must select and use appropriate numerical methods for interpolation and integration.
• Hydrostatic and stability calculations use a basic understanding of mathematics and physics and are a vital aspect of Maritime Engineering and assessed through the examination. Links between the calculations and various regulations are explored.

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.