Ship Stability for Masters and Mates
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Dedication Page
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Group Weights, Water Draft, Air Draft, and Density
CHAPTER 2 Transverse Statical Stability
CHAPTER 3 Effect of Decreasing Free Surface on Stability
CHAPTER 4 TPC and Displacement Curves
CHAPTER 5 Form Coefficients
CHAPTER 6 Discussion on LCB Position Relative to Amidships
CHAPTER 7 Quadrature e Simpson’s Rules for Areas and Centroids
CHAPTER 8 Quadrature e Simpson’s Rules for Moments of Inertia
CHAPTER 9 Quadrature e Simpson’s Rules for Centers of Pressure on Transverse Bulkheads
CHAPTER 10 KB, BM, and KM Calculations and Graphics on Metacentric Diagrams
CHAPTER 11 Final KG Plus 20 Reasons for Rise in KG
CHAPTER 12 Angle of List Considerations e Text, Calculations, and Graphics
CHAPTER 13 Angle of Heel e Effects of Suspended Weights
CHAPTER 14 Angle of List Due to Bilging of Side Compartments
CHAPTER 15 Heel Due to Turning
CHAPTER 16 Angle of Loll
CHAPTER 17 Moments of Statical Stability
CHAPTER 18 Aspects of Trim e The Main Factors Involved
CHAPTER 19 Trim Calculations e Changing Conditions of Loading
CHAPTER 20 Trim Calculations e Satisfying Prescribed Requirements for End Drafts
CHAPTER 21 Large-Angle Stability Considerations e GZ and KN Cross Curves of Stability
CHAPTER 22 Effects of Beam and Freeboard on Stability
CHAPTER 23 Dynamical Stability Relating to Statical Stability Curves
CHAPTER 24 Changes in Statical Stability Relating to Wave Profiles e Loss of Quasi-Static Stability
CHAPTER 25 Hydrostatic Curves and Values for Vessels Initially on Even Keel
CHAPTER 26 Hydrostatic Curves and Values for Vessels Initially Having Trim by the Bow or by the Stern
CHAPTER 27 Increase in Draft Due to List
CHAPTER 28 Combined List and Trim
CHAPTER 29 Calculating Free-Surface Effects of Slack Tanks with Divisional Bulkheads
CHAPTER 30 Bilging Effects of Stability e Permeability Effects
CHAPTER 31 Effects of Side Winds on Ship Stability
CHAPTER 32 Icing Allowances Plus Effects on Trim and Stability
CHAPTER 33 The Sectional Area Curve
CHAPTER 34 FL and PL Curves Plus Type A and Type B Vessels
CHAPTER 35 Load Lines and Freeboard Marks
CHAPTER 36 Timber Ship Freeboard Marks
CHAPTER 37 IMO Grain Rules for Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk
CHAPTER 38 True Mean Draf
CHAPTER 39 Inclining Experiment (Stability Test) Plus Fluctuations in a Ship’s Lightweight
CHAPTER 40 The Calibration Book Plus Soundings and Ullages
CHAPTER 41 Drydocking and Stability e Procedures and Calculations
CHAPTER 42 Ship Squat in Open Water and in Confined Channels
CHAPTER 43 Turning Circle Diameter (TCD) Values for Vessels in Shallow Waters
CHAPTER 44 Interaction Effects, Including Two Case Studies
CHAPTER 45 Rolling, Pitching, and Heaving Motions
CHAPTER 46 Synchronous Rolling and Parametric Rolling of Ships
CHAPTER 47 Effects of Change of Density on a Ship’s Draft and Trim
CHAPTER 48 The Deadweight Scale
CHAPTER 49 The Trim and Stability Book
CHAPTER 50 Simplified Stability Information
CHAPTER 51 The Stability Pro-Forma
CHAPTER 52 Looking Forward into the Next Decade
CHAPTER 53 Draft Surveys
CHAPTER 54 Quality Control e Plus the Work of Ship Surveyors
CHAPTER 55 Extracts from the 1998 Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations Number MSN 1752(M)
CHAPTER 56 Keeping Up to Date
APPENDIX I Summary of Stability Formulae
APPENDIX II SQA/MCA 2004 Syllabuses for Masters and Mates
APPENDIX III Specimen Exam Questions with Marking Scheme
APPENDIX IV 100 Revision One-Liners
APPENDIX V How to Pass Exams in Maritime Studies
APPENDIX VI Ship Stability Data Sheets
APPENDIX VII Capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise e A Journalistic Review
References
Answers to Exercises
Nomenclature of Ship Terms
Index
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