Merchant Ship Stability
About this book
Merchant Ship Stability presents the theory and application of methods for maintaining ship stability. It serves as a textbook for deck officers and first year degree students. The book discusses the methods of Simpson's rules for measuring ship form, the principle of floatation, finding the position of the center of gravity, and the effect of the center of gravity of the vessel not being on the centerline, the effect of having liquids within the vessel which are free to move and the effect of suspending weights. Topics on the assessment of stability of large angles of heel, regulations about merchant vessel stability, and dry docking and grounding are provided as well. Deck officers and merchant marine students will find the book very useful.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Merchant Ship Stability
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Ship form and measurement
- Chapter 2. Flotation
- Chapter 3. Determination of position of centre of gravity
- Chapter 4. Conditions of equilibrium
- Chapter 5. List and free surface
- Chapter 6. Stability at large angles of heel
- Chapter 7. Calculation of righting level and assessment of stability
- Chapter 8. Longitudinal stability—trim
- Chapter 9. Dry docking and grounding
- Chapter 10. Bilging
- Chapter 11. Bending moment, shear force and torsion
- Chapter 12. Squat interaction and turning
- Index
