Ship design and performance for masters and mates / C. B. Barrass

Contents<br/>Acknowledgements ix<br/>Introduction xi<br/>Part 1 Ship Design<br/>1 Preliminary estimates for new ships: Main Dimensions 3<br/>2 Preliminary estimates for group weights for a new ship 17<br/>3 Preliminary capacities for a new ship 34<br/>4 Approximate hydrostatic particulars 40<br/>5 Types of ship resistance 54<br/>6 Types of ship speed 63<br/>7 Types of power in ships 68<br/>8 Power coefficients on ships 74<br/>9 Preliminary design methods for a ship’s propeller and rudder 82<br/>Nomenclature for ship design and performance 91<br/>Part 2 Ship Performance<br/>10 Modern Merchant Ships 103<br/>11 Ships of this Millennium 109<br/>12 Ship Trials: a typical ‘Diary of Events’ 116<br/>13 Ship Trials: speed performance on the measured mile 120<br/>14 Ship Trials: endurance and fuel consumption 132<br/>15 Ship Trials: manoeuvring trials and stopping characteristics 137<br/>16 Ship Trials: residual trials 144<br/>17 Ship squat in open water and in confined channels 148<br/>18 Reduced ship speed and decreased propeller revolutions in<br/>shallow waters 164<br/>19 The phenomena of Interaction of ships in confined waters 180<br/>20 Ship vibration 191<br/>vi Ship Design and Performance for Masters and Mates<br/>21 Performance enhancement in ship-handling mechanisms 202<br/>22 Improvements in propeller performance 218<br/>Useful design and performance formulae 228<br/>Revision one-liners for student’s examination preparation 235<br/>How to pass examinations in Maritime Studies 239<br/>References 241<br/>Answers to questions 243<br/>Index 247

Includes bibliographic references p 241-242 and index. p. 247-252