Course content

• Load transfer
• Loading conditions for ships, calculating moments and shear forces for the hull beam
• Identification of strength elements
• Simplification and definition of structural problems
• Global and local strength
• Girder systems
• Buckling of plates
• Design criteria
• Material properties
• Connections and details

Learning outcome

Upon completion of the module, the candidate is to have:

...knowledge about:

• Different ship types
• Ship design processes
• Relevant structural design processes
• Methods for structural design
• Present innovation processes within ship design

...skills in:

• Application of relevant digital tools
• Determining the critical loading conditions for the vessel
• Hand calculation of structural strength elements
• Application of computer aided strength calculations of local and global strength elements
• Designing a ship from a functional point of view

...competence in:

• Terminology
• The ship design process
• Flag State requirements
• Owners' requirements
• The role of the classification societies

Learning methods and activities

Lectures.

Compulsory assignments

• Project Work

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

SKID1100 Ship design I

SKID1200 Ship design II

SKID2201 Strength Analyses

Course materials

• Compendium "Structural Design of Ships", Arne Jan Sollied
• Classification Rules from DNV
• "Ship design for Efficiency and Economy", Schneekluth & Bertram
• "System Based Ship Design", Kai Levander
• User manual for the ship design software Maxsurf