Analysis and Design of Marine Structures

including CD-ROM

Carlos Guedes Soares, P.K. Das, Carlos Guedes Soares, P.K. Das

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780415549349
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780203874981
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

'Analysis and Design of Marine Structures' explores recent developments in methods and modelling procedures for structural assessment of marine structures: - Methods and tools for establishing loads and load effects;- Methods and tools for strength assessment;- Materials and fabrication of structures;- Methods and tools for structural design and opt

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Organisation
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Organisation
• Methods and tools for loads and load effects
• A study on the effect of heavy weather avoidance on the wave pressure distribution along the midship transverse section of a VLCC and a bulk carrier
• Comparison of experimental and numerical sloshing loads in partially filled tanks
• Experiments on a damaged ship section
• Estimation of parametric rolling of ships—comparison of different probabilistic methods
• Local hydro-structure interactions due to slamming
• Methods and tools for strength assessment
• Methods for hull structure strength analysis and ships service life evaluation, for a large LNG carrier
• Parametric investigation on stress concentrations of bulk carrier hatch corners
• A study on structural characteristics of the ring-stiffened circular toroidal shells
• Application developments of mixed finite element method for fluid-structure interaction analysis in maritime engineering
• Efficient calculation of the effect of water on ship vibration
• Finite element simulations of ship collisions: A coupled approach to external dynamics and inner mechanics
• Discussion of plastic capacity of plating subject to patch loads
• Ultimate strength characteristics of aluminium plates for high speed vessels
• Improving the shear properties of web-core sandwich structures using filling material
• Stability of flat bar stiffeners under lateral patch loads
• Ultimate strength of stiffened plates with local damage on the stiffener
• Approximate method for evaluation of stress-strain relationship for stiffened panel subject to tension, compression and shear employing the finite element approach
• Residual strength of damaged stiffened panel on double bottom ship
• Assessment of the hull girder ultimate strength of a bulk carrier using nonlinear finite element analysis
• Ultimate strength performance of Suezmax tanker structures: Pre-CSR versus CSR designs
• Large scale corrosion tests
• Anticorrosion protection systems—improvements and continued problems
• Prospects of application of plasma electrolytic oxidation coatings for shipbuilding
• Corrosion wastage statistics and maintenance planning of corroded hull structures of bulk carriers
• Numerical simulation of strength and deformability of steel plates with surface pits and replicated corrosion-surface
• Effect of pitting corrosion on the collapse strength of rectangular plates under axial compression
• Fracture mechanics procedures for assessing fatigue life of window and door corners in ship structures
• Experimental and numerical fatigue analysis of partial-load and full-load carrying fillet welds at doubler plates and lap join s
• Global strength analysis of ships with special focus on fatigue of hatch corners
• Structural integrity monitoring index for ship and offshore structures
• Effect of uncertain weld shape on the structural hot-spot stress distribution
• A study on a method for maintenance of ship structures considering remaining life benefit
• Impact behaviour of GRP, aluminium and steel plates
• Impact damage of MARK III type LNG carrier cargo containment system due to dropped objects: An experimental study
• Simulation of the response of double bottoms under grounding actions using finite elements
• CFD simulations on gas explosion and fire actions
• The effects of reliability-based vulnerability requirements on blast-loaded ship panels
• Structural monitoring of mast and rigging of sail ships
• Assessment of ice-induced loads on ship hulls based on continuous response monitoring
• Materials and fabrication of structures
• The importance of welding quality in ship construction
• A data mining analysis to evaluate the additional workloads caused by welding distortions
• 3D numerical model of austenitic stainless steel 316L multipass butt welding and comparison with experimental results
• Fabrication, testing and analysis of steel/composite DLS adhesive joints
• The effect of surface preparation on the behaviour of double strap adhesive joints with thick steel adherents
• Pultrusion characterisation for adhesive joints
• Studies of the buckling of composite plates in compression
• Buckling strength parametric study of composite laminated plates with delaminations
• Buckling behaviour of the ship deck composite plates with cut-outs
• Buckling behaviour of plates with central elliptical delamination
• Methods and tools for structural design and optimization
• Structural design of a medium size passenger vessel with low wake wash
• Multi-objective optimization of ship structures: Using guided search vs. conventional concurrent optimization
• Digital prototyping of hull structures in basic design
• Structural reliability safety and environmental protection
• Probabilistic presentation of the total bending moments of FPSO’s
• Stochastic model of the still water bending moment of oil tankers
• Statistics of still water bending moments on double hull tankers
• Structural reliability of the ultimate hull girder strength of a PANAMAX container ship
• Sensitivity analysis of the ultimate limit state variables for a tanker and a bulk carrier
• Ultimate strength and reliability assessment of laminated composite plates under axial compression
• Modelling of environmental impacts of ship dismantling
• Fuel consumption and exhaust emissions reduction by dynamic propeller pitch control
• Author index
• Back cover