Marine Structures

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Able to design a stiffened deck panel and evaluate its structural responses under sea loads and make recommendations for future design improvements, reflecting on the wider context of structural design in terms of economic and environmental sustainability. (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C/M6, C7, C/M9, C/M13, C/M14, C17)
• Able to design ship stiffened panels to avoid resonance. (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C/M6)
• Able to apply Finite Element method to predict the behaviour of ship frame structures under sea loads. (C1, C2, C4, C/M6, C/M14)

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Able to quantify the impact of various structural sectional design features on buckling behaviour of stiffened plates. (C1, C2, C3, C/M6, C7, C/M14)
• Able to assess ultimate strength of maritime structures and structural components. (C1, C2, C3, C4, C/M6)
• Able to evaluate theoretical and practical aspects of structural response analysis for marine structures. (C3, C4, C/M6, C7)
• Able to critique various structural assessment methods to estimate the strength of maritime structures and structural components under sea loads. (C3, C4, C/M6, C7, C/M14)

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Able to apply the knowledge and skills to practical ship design and assessments. (C1, C2, C3, C4, C/M6, C7, C/M14)

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Able to improve powers of critical assessment and review, and ability to review, analyse and synthesise knowledge of strength and behaviour of maritime structures and structural components into structural design and analysis. (C2, C4, C/M6, C7)

This module provides a fundamental understanding of the methods for the design and analysis of Maritime Structures. This is undertaken by developing an awareness of structural principles and their application to marine related problems.

This module builds and develops the skills required to undertake the structural design and analysis of a maritime structure and the corresponding structural components. The module introduces the theoretical and numerical techniques available to undertake this.

This module builds on essential previous understanding of forces acting on a ship at sea; a quasi static approaches to longitudinal strength; determining equilibrium; calculation of weight, buoyancy, shear force and bending moment; determining design bending moment and shear force; classification society requirements; and the design of ship structures such as mid-ship sections.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures
• Class discussions
• Example sheets and directed self-study.

Learning activities include

• Directed reading
• Independent learning to broaden understanding.

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