• Semester 4, position 4

The aim of the course is for students to master the fundamental knowledge of the ship's hull shape, its geometric characteristics and hydrostatics. In addition, students will get familiar with the basics of buoyancy of floating objects.

1. The student will be able to use technical skills to interpret, utilize, and modify existing ship hull forms or independently establish new ones, and based on this, analyse and create the basic hydrostatic calculation of the ship; 2. The student will be able to select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to solve problems of ship hydrostatics and buoyancy, considering the limitations of the applied techniques; 3. The student will be able to communicate effectively on complex engineering matters of the course subject with technical and non-technical audiences, evaluating the effectiveness of the methods used.

Introductory lectures: Basic terms and elements of a ship, main dimensions, hull form coefficients, types of ships, units of measurement in shipbuilding. Lines plan: Coordinate system, display of the ship in three projections, requirements regarding the shape of the hull, CAD hull modeling, examples of lines plan of different types of vessels. Ship's hydrostatics: Basic geometric characteristics of cross-section and waterlines, concept of the curve of the sectional area, displacement volume and mass, center of gravity, center of buoyancy, center of flotation. Basics of ship buoyancy: Archimedes' law, conditions of flotation, buoyancy of fully immersed bodies, state of equilibrium, concept of metacenter, concept of metacenter height.

Project I: Drawing of the lines plan using the traditional method. Project II: Hydrostatic calculations. Project III: CAD hull model. Practical calculations: Calculation of basic geometric characteristics of simple forms - surface of cross-section and waterlines, displacement volume and mass, surface centroid, centers of buoyancy and mass, area moment of inertia, initial metacenter height.

There are no special requirements for attendance.

[1] Rudaković, S., Handouts

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 30
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 0

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 5
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 25
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 11
Test: 2
Test: 0
Final exam: 2

Activity during lectures: 0
Test/test: 15
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 55
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 35

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