Reeds marine engineering and technology. Volume 5 : ship construction for marine engineers

This textbook covers ship construction techniques and methods for all classes of Merchant Navy marine deck and engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Undergraduate students studying Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. It is complementary to Volume 4 (Naval Architecture) and Volume 8 (General Engineering Knowledge). Importantly, this new edition contains up-to-date information on modern shipyards, dry-docking procedures and methods of construction. Extensively illustrated, the book also includes sample examination questions with worked examples answers to aid students in their learning. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Preface General Introduction 1 Ship Types and Terms Passenger Ships Container Ships (the Modern Cargo Liner Ships) Cargo (Tramp) Ships Roll-On/Roll-Off Vessels Oil Tankers Bulk Carriers Chemical Carriers Liquefied Gas Carriers Superyachts General Notes Ship Terms 2 Stresses in Ship Structures Strength of Ships – Overall Design Concept Longitudinal Bending Still water bending – static loading Wave bending – dynamic loading Transverse Bending and Racking Dry-docking Pounding Panting 3 Steel Sections Used: Welding and Materials Ordinary angles Bulb plates Channels Joist or H-bars Tee-bars Flat bars or slabs Aluminium sections Welding Welding Safety General Manual metal arc welding (electric arc welding) Gas welding – eyes Welding Processes Manual metal arc welding Tungsten inert gas (TIG) and metal inert gas (MIG) (sometimes referred to as argon arc welding) Types of joint and edge preparation The development of the welded ship Testing of welds Destructive tests Non-destructive tests Faults in welded joints (Figure 3.23) Design of welded structures Materials Mild steel Higher tensile steels Arctic D steel Aluminium alloys The fracturing of steel structures Composites 4 Bottom and Side Framing Double Bottom Internal structure of the hull Duct keel or pipe tunnels Double bottom in the machinery space Side Framing 5 Shell and Decks Shell Plating Deck Plating Beams and Deck Girders Hatches 6 Bulkheads and Deep Tanks Watertight Bulkheads Watertight Doors Deep Tanks Deep tanks for water ballast or dry cargo only Deep tanks for oil fuel, oil cargo or fresh water Non-watertight Bulkheads Corrugated Bulkheads 7 Fore end Arrangements Stem Arrangements to Resist Panting Arrangements to Resist Pounding Bulbous Bow Anchor and Cable Arrangements 8 After end Arrangements Cruiser Stern Sternframe and Rudder Fabricated sternframe with unbalanced rudder Cast steel sternframe with balanced rudder Open water stern with spade rudder Rudder and sternframe for twin screw ship Bossings and spectacle frame for twin screw ship Shaft Tunnel Thrust Improvement Kort Nozzle Fixed nozzle Nozzle rudder Mewis Duct Tail Flaps and Rotating Cylinders Podded Drive 9 Oil Tankers, Bulk Carriers, Liquefied Gas Carriers and Container Ships Introduction Oil Tankers Longitudinal framing Combined framing General structure Cargo pumping and piping arrangements Deepwell pumping systems Crude oil washing (COW) Bulk Carriers Liquefied Gas Carriers Fully pressurised Semi-.pressurised/.partly refrigerated Semi-pressurised/.fully refrigerated Fully refrigerated Safety and environmental control Boil-off Operating procedures Drying Inerting Pre-cooling Loading and discharging Container Ships 10 The Load Line Regulations Freeboard Conditions of assignment Load line surveys Tonnage Early rules Modified tonnage Alternative tonnage Current rules Life-Saving Appliances Fire Protection Definitions Passenger ships Dry cargo ships Oil tankers Classification of Ships Discontinuities 11 Ship Dynamics Propellers Fluctuating Forces Caused by the Propeller Wake Field Podded Drive Controllable Pitch Propellers Contra-rotating Propellers Vertical Axis Propellers Tunnel Thrusters (Bow and Stern Thrusters) Rolling and Stabilisation Reduction of Roll Bilge keels Active fin stabilisers Tank stabilisers Passive tanks Controlled passive tanks Active controlled tanks Vibration 12 Miscellaneous Insulation of Ships Corrosion Hull Coatings – for Efficiency and for the Prevention of Corrosion Surface preparation New building Surface preparation during dry-docking Coating systems Cathodic protection Impressed current system Design and maintenance Fouling Examination in Dry Dock – Class Emergency Repairs to Structure Engine Casing Funnel Selection of Examination Questions – Class 2 Selection of Examination Questions – Class 1 Index