Ship Hydrostatics and Stability, 3rd Ed 2024

Published: July 2024

Author: Adrian Biran, Ruben Lopez-Pulido

Ship Hydrostatics and Stability, Third Edition, is a comprehensive guide to understanding ship hydrostatics in ship design and ship performance, taking you from first principles through basic and applied theory to contemporary mathematical techniques for ship design and project approval. Real-life examples are used to explain the theory and calculations using MATLAB and Excel. The new edition of this trusted resource covers new naval architecture regulations, such as a Second-Generation Intact Stability Code (SGISC), and new case studies. Extensive reference to computational techniques is made throughout, and downloadable MATLAB files accompany the book to support your own hydrostatics and stability calculations.
The book also includes tables of notations and technical terms, as well as indexes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

KEY FEATURES
• Definitions, formulations, and methods are provided throughout to
facilitate novices.
• Rigorous mathematical proofs of the most important theorems are
provided.
• Examples based on data from real ships are used throughout the book to
explain concepts and procedures.

Table of Contents:

1. Definitions, principal dimensions

2. Basic ship hydrostatics

3. Numerical integration in naval architecture

4. Hydrostatic curves

5. Statical stability at large angles of heel

6. Simple models of stability

7. Weight and trim calculation

8. Intact stability regulations I

9. Stability in Waves

10. Intact stability regulations II

11. Intact Stability Regulations III—IMO SGIS Criteria

12. Flooding and damage condition

13. Linear ship response in waves

14. Computer methods