Ship Structural Design: A Rationally-Based, Computer-Aided Optimization Approach

Reprint. Trade paperback, 591 pp. This 2005 edition combines the original 1995 version and the Plate Bending Supplement under one cover. It presents the fundamental and essential aspects of rationally-based preliminary ship structural design in a complete and unified treatment. It also presents a methodology design that is practical, efficient and versatile and that has already been implemented in a computer program, tested and proven. The book is self-contained in that it covers all the basic aspects of rationally-based design that are required by a designer, such as frame analysis, finite element theory, statistical production of wave loads, as well as new techniques for structural modeling and the method for alternate strength analysis of a hull model. New.