SHIP HYDROSTATICS AND STABILITY


General Info


  • Course Title: Ship Hydrostatics And Stability
  • Course Code: NAOME1318
  • Semester: 3rd
  • Course Type: S.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 3 (Lectures), 2 (Laboratory)
  • Credits (ECTS): 6
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NA254/
  • Professors: Th. Mazarakos , I. Tigkas , N. Fragiadakis


Course Content / Syllabus


Forces and moments on floating bodies. Basic equations of hydrostatic equilibrium. Geometric characteristics of floating bodies. The general problem of variation under constant or variable displacement of a floating body. Intact stability: Hydrostatic curves. Transverse stability. Initial stability and stability at large angles. Cross curves. Free-surface correction. Curve of static stability. Dynamic stability. Stability Rules. Trim: Calculation of drafts and displacement in trimmed conditions. Trim diagrams. Laboratory exercises: Calculation of ship geometric characteristics. Calculation of hydrostatic diagram. Calculation of cross curves. Calculation of static stability curve in a given loading condition.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎