Ship Structural Analysis and Design
Ship Structural Analysis and Design By Hughes, Owen F.; Paik, Jeom Kee
2010 | 604 Pages | ISBN: 0939773783 | PDF | 14 MB
2010 | 604 Pages | ISBN: 0939773783 | PDF | 14 MB
This book focuses on the most complex aspects of ship structural design which is preliminary design and will benefit structural designers and students. The text uses a rationally-based design approach (design from first principles), which is ideally suited to preliminary structural design. One of the advantages of this approach is that, unlike all earlier design methods, it applies to all types of ships. Moreover, this approach allows the designer to achieve an optimum structure, according to their own particular measure of merit, such as least life-cycle cost, least weight, or any combination of these. As in the original book, the underlying theory has been verified through extensive testing and implemented in MAESTRO, a leading ship structural design program.