Basic Naval Architecture

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The concepts of area, first and second moments of area and their applications to floating bodies.
• The different types of marine vehicles and identify characteristics influencing their design.
• The use of numerical methods for calculating hydrostatic properties.
• The concept of fairness and its application to ship and boat geometry
• The concepts of static and dynamic stability.
• The concepts of equilibrium and changes in equilibrium of floating bodies.

Partial CEng Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Hydrostatic and stability calculations use a basic understanding of mathematics and physics and are a vital aspect of Maritime Engineering and assessed through the examination. Links between the calculations and various regulations are explored.
• Students conduct hydrostatic calculations through programming and must select and use appropriate numerical methods for interpolation and integration.
• Two formative laboratory sessions are held, the first explored aspects of Archimedes principle and the second is an experimental inclining laboratory, both designed to complement the theory in the lectures.
• Students are expected to evaluate the results they obtain from first principles hydrostatic calculations and comment on their validity/meaning in the context of the problem they are solving and is assessed in the examination and the computing assignment.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use basic mathematical techniques, such as integration, to formulate and obtain hydrostatic properties of simple geometries.
• Use simple measurement techniques to obtain data.
• Realise a concept design of a ship or boat geometry using CAD software and it's presentation as a technical drawing
• Use basic numerical methods, such as Simpson's and trapezium rules and interpolation techniques, to formulate and obtain hydrostatic properties of hull forms.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Obtain and accurately analyse data applying your knowledge/understanding of this module
• Numerical integration.
• Learn through tutorials and begin to learn independently.
• Team working through laboratory experiment.
• Undertake a laboratory based Inclining experiment.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Calculate relevant hydrostatic properties using theoretical and numerical methods.
• Understand the basic principles of equilibrium of floating bodies.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.