Ship Stability for Masters and Mates covers the subject of ship stability for students preparing for examinations leading to the Department of Transport's Certificates of Competency for Deck Officers at the various Class levels.
A textbook and reference covering the subject of ship stability in depth in 41 chapters plus appendices. Careful attention to basic principles together with generous provision of worked examples, and exercise questions with answers, ensure that the student who works through this book will have a clear grasp of stability problems and calculations. Up-to-date syllabuses and examination papers are included.
Forces and moments; Centroids and the centre of gravity; Density and
specific gravity; Laws of floatation; Effect of density on draft and
displacement; Transverse statical stability; Effect of free surface of
liquids on stability; TPC and displacement curves; Form coefficients;
Simpson's rules for areas and centroids; Final KG; Calculating KB, BM, and
metacentric diagrams; List; Moments of statical stability; Trim; Stability
and hydrostatic curves; Increase in draft due to list; Water pressure;
Combined list and trim; Calculating the effect of free surface of liquids;
Bilging and permeability; Dynamical stability; Effect of beam and freeboard
on stability; Angle of loll; True mean draft; The inclining experiment;
Effect of trim on tank soundings; Drydocking and grounding; Second moments of
areas; Liquid pressure and thrust. Centres of pressure; Metacentric height at
the angle of loll; Heel due to turning; Unresisted rolling in still water;
List due to bilging side compartments; Radial integration by Simpson's rules;
Launching; Effect of change of density on draft and trim; List with zero
metacentric height; Tchebycheff's rules Shear force and bending moments.
Murray's Method; Simplified stability information.
Dr Bryan Barrass worked as a Ship Draughtsman for 11 years at Swan Hunters Shipyard in Wallsend. In 1963, he then became a Lecturer in Naval Architecture in Sunderland. From 1967 to 1993, he worked at Liverpool John Moores University, lecturing to Maritime Degree students, Masters, Mates, and Marine Engineers. In 1993 he retired from full-time work. He became a visiting Lecturer and has written seven books involving Ship Stability, Ship Design & Ship Performance and Ship Squat & Interaction. His interest in Ship Squat began in April 1972, starting on research for his Ph.D. degree. He has worked with many national & international Port Authorities. They include the PLA, Milford Haven PA, Liverpool PA, Humberside PA, Tyne PA, Truro PA, Newhaven PA, Bordeaux PA, Klaipeda PA, Nantes PA and Hamburg PA. Dr Barrass has supplied Ship Squat and Interaction information to 22 countries worldwide. He has lectured at a great number of UK Universities and has advised many Ship-owners on the above listed Specialist topics.
