Catalog Description

EN376 Ship Design II (0-6-3).

In this course, which represents the culmination of an undergraduate naval architecture program, the student apples engineering skills to the preliminary design of a ship.

Textbook

Ship Design and Construction, 2 vols., SNAME, 2003

Course Coordinator

Assoc. Professor Paul Miller

Goals

1. Be able to exercise his or her technical background by application to the design of a complex system - namely a ship.
2. Be able to budget a limited amount of time and effort toward the solution of an open-ended design problem.
3. Know how to seek out and obtain information from sources other than standard textbooks.
4. Have experience in the oral presentation of a technical problem and its solution.
5. Have the ability to produce a ship design solution which shows good engineering judgment, is technically sound, fiscally feasible, and aesthetically pleasing.

Prerequisites

EN471 Ship Design I, NAOE Department

Class Topics

1. Engineering design principles
2. Design management - GANTT charts - manhour estimating - product definition
3. Ship design - mission statement, COR
4. Intro to project vessel type
5. Project written portion descriptions, parametric analysis
6. Parametric Analysis
7. General arrangements and weights (LS, BO, variable, FD)
8. Parametric Analysis - design lanes, target values
9. CAD
10. Loadlines, basic stability, basic hydrostatics
11. General arrangements/ weights/ hull lines
12. Stability analyses (subdivision)
13. Propulsion system selection and powering estimate (EHP to BHP)
14. Propulsion system layout
15. Propeller and reduction gear selection
16. Piping Schematic
17. Electrical schematic and load analysis
18. Rudder design
19. Structural analysis - primary, secondary, tertiary (Gerr, ABS)
20. Structural material options - drawings
21. Seakeeping
22. Cost estimating
23. Manning

Laboratory Projects

All laboratory time is spent by the students working on their design under the instructor’s and mentor’s supervision.