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1 - Ship Structures and Structural Design Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

P. A. Caridis
P. A. Caridis
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National Technical University of Athens
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Summary

This chapter provides an introduction to ship structures and includes descriptions of structural arrangements of the most important types of merchant ships and the properties of the materials used. This is followed by a discussion of the need to consider ship structures at different levels of analysis (top-down approach). The role of structural modelling, and in particular modelling applicable to global strength, is described. In the second part of the chapter an overview of current practice in ship structural design is presented, in which similarities between merchant and warship structural design are highlighted. The role of classification societies is described as well as that of the IMO Goal-Based-Standards. A comparison of classification society rules follows. The role of computer-based techniques is discussed. In the last section recommendations for good practice in ship structural design are provided.

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structural analysisstructural designtop-down approachclassification societiesstructural arrangementsmaterials
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Global Strength of Ships
Analysis and Design using Mathematical Methods
 , pp. 1 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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