Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy

Volker Bertram, H. Schneekluth9780750641333, 0750641339

The previous edition of Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy was published as a Butterworth’s marine engineering title. It has now been completely revised and updated by Schneekluth and Bertram.This book gives advice to students and naval architects on how to design ships – in particular with regard to hull design. The previous edition of this book was published in 1987. Since then, there have been numerous important developments in this area and the new additions to this book reflect these changes. Chapter 3 has been completely rewritten with added information on methodology of optimization, optimization shells and concept exploration methods. There is also a new sub-chapter on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for ship-hull design. Plus, a new method to predict ship resistance based on the evaluation of modern ship hull design will be detailed.The emphasis of the this book is on design for operational economy. The material is directly usable not only in practice, in the design office and by shipowners, but also by students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 4
Preface……Page 6
1. Main dimensions and main ratios……Page 7
5.2 Weight of ‘equipment and outfit’ (E&O)……Page 0
1.3 Depth, draught and freeboard……Page 19
1.4 Block coefficient and prismatic coefficient……Page 30
1.5 Midship section area coefficient and midship section design……Page 33
1.6 Waterplane area coefficient……Page 37
1.8 References……Page 39
2.1 Statement of the problem……Page 40
2.2 Shape of sectional area curve……Page 41
2.3 Bow and forward section forms……Page 43
2.4 Bulbous bow……Page 48
2.5 Stern forms……Page 58
2.6 Conventional propeller arrangement……Page 66
2.7 Problems of design in broad, shallow-draught ships……Page 67
2.8 Propeller clearances……Page 69
2.9 The conventional method of lines design……Page 72
2.10 Lines design using distortion of existing forms……Page 74
2.11 Computational fluid dynamics for hull design……Page 85
2.12 References……Page 89
3.1 Introduction to methodology of optimization……Page 91
3.2 Scope of application in ship design……Page 95
3.3 Economic basics for optimization……Page 97
3.4 Discussion of some important parameters……Page 104
3.5 Special cases of optimization……Page 109
3.6 Developments of the 1980s and 1990s……Page 112
3.7 References……Page 116
4.2 Overlapping propellers……Page 118
4.3 Contra-rotating propellers……Page 120
4.5 Kort nozzles……Page 121
4.6 Further devices to improve propulsion……Page 138
4.7 References……Page 153
5. Computation of weights and centres of mass……Page 155
5.1 Steel weight……Page 157
5.3 Weight of engine plant……Page 179
5.5 References……Page 184
6.1 Interaction between ship and propeller……Page 186
6.2 Power prognosis using the admiralty formula……Page 190
6.3 Ship resistance under trial conditions……Page 191
6.4 Additional resistance under service conditions……Page 206
6.5 References……Page 210
A.1 Stability regulations……Page 212
References……Page 219
Nomenclature……Page 220
Index……Page 224