Practical design of ships and other floating structures : proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures, 16-21 September, 2001, Shanghai, China. Vol. 1 / / editors, You-Sheng Wu, Wei-Cheng Cui, Guo-Jun Zhou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784635903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 2001
• ISBN: 1-281-07226-5; 9786611072261; 0-08-053935-1
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (721 pages)
• Collana: Practical design of ships and other floating structures : proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures, 16-21 September, 2001, Shanghai, China
• Altri autori (Persone): WuYou-Sheng; CuiWei-Cheng; ZhouGuo-Jun
• Disciplina: 623.8/1
• Soggetti: Naval architecture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures; Copyright Page; Preface; CONTENTS; PLENARY LECTURES; Maritime Safety Culture and Development of Ship and Offshore Installations Design Standards in the 21 st Century; Structural Safety of Ships; Shipping Industry in the 21st Century; PART 1: DESIGN SYNTHESIS FOR SHIPS AND FLOATING SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 1. LIFE CYCLE COST AND SHIPPING SYSTEM; A Consideration of Life Cycle Cost of a Ship; The Experiment of River-Sea-Going Ore Barge Fleet and Renovation of Existing Integrated Barge; CHAPTER 2. DESIGN OPTIMISATION; Optimization of a Wave Cancellation Multihull Ship Using CFD Tools A Module-Oriented Optimization Tool; The Fine Optimization of Ship Hull Lines in Resistance Performance by Using CFD Approach; CHAPTER 3. HULL FORM DESIGN; Parametric Hull Form Design - A Step Towards One Week Ship Design; Mission Based Hydrodynamic Design of a Hydrographic Survey Vessel; Hull Form Design of a Passenger Catamaran for Operation in the Yellow Sea Region; Hull Form Design of ; Cargo Ship in Shallow and Strong Current Waterways; CHAPTER 4. NOVEL SHIP CONCEPTS - HIGH SPEED VESSELS; The Impact Load of Wing-in-Ground-Effect Craft in Waves and Application of Hydro-Ski Conceptual Design of Very Large-Size Super-High-Speed Foil Catamaran Containership; A Practical Application of Air Lubrication on a Small High Speed Boat; The Hybrid Hydrofoil Stepped Hull; CHAPTER 5. NOVEL SHIP CONCEPTS - TRIMARAN; The Design of Trimaran Ships: General Review and Practical Structural Analysis; Calm Water Experimental Research on Geosims of High Speed Trimaran: Hydrodynamic Characteristics and Model-Ship Correlation; Trimaran Model Test Results and Comparison with Different High Speed Craft; Hull Form Development and Powering Performance Characteristics for a 2,500 Ton Class Trimaran CHAPTER 6. FLOATING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; Design Recommendations from the FPSO - Fatigue Capacity JIP; Design of FPSOs Based on Maneuvering Stability; Extreme Response and Fatigue Damage of Ship-Shaped FPSO; CHAPTER 7. VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES (I); An Investigation into Wave Induced Drift Forces and Motions of Very Large Floating Structures; A Study on the Horizontally Dynamic Behavior of a VLFS Supported with Dolphins; Experimental Study on the Hydroelastic Response Characteristics of a Pontoon Type Floating Structure CHAPTER 8. VERY LARGE FLOATING STRUCTURES (II); Simulation Study on Coastal Ecosystem Around a Very Large Floating Structure in Tokyo Bay; Effects of a Draft on Hydroelastic Responses of a Pontoon Type Very Large Floating Structure; A Study on Deck Wetness and Slamming of Very Large Floating Structures; CHAPTER 9. SAFETY ASSESSMENT; Probabilistic Analysis Tools for Surface Ships Under Seaway and Extreme Dynamic Loads Comprehensive Fuzzy Approach in Hazard Identification of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA)
• Sommario/riassunto: This proceedings contains the papers presented at The 8th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures held in China in September 2001 - the first PRADS of the 21st Century. The overall aim of PRADS symposia is to advance the design of ships and other floating structures as a professional discipline and science by exchanging knowledge and promoting discussion of relevant topics in the fields of naval architecture and marine and offshore engineering.