Coursecode: mt815
Coursename: Ship Construction and Strength: Special Subjects.

ECTS creditpoints: 2

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology.

Lecturer(s): Vink, ir. J.H., Hommel, ir. G.

Tel.: 015-27 85923/ 86507

Catalog data:
Ship structures, offshore structures, materials, welding, probabilistic design, ship collision, hull monitoring, grounding.

Courseyear: MSc 1st year
Semester: 2A
Hours p/w: 3
Other hours: -
Assessment: See remarks
Assessm.period(s): -
(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites: mt803, mt832, mt830, mt815.

Follow up: -

Detailed description of topics:
Three advanced topics in the field of ship and offshore structures will be dealt with each year.

·         Each odd  week, a topic is introduced by an expert during a lecture of 3 hrs.

·         Subsequently, the students have to work in groups on a task as defined by the expert.

·        The results of the task are presented and discussed in the next even week. 

Course material:
As made available by the relevant experts.

References from literature: -

Remarks (specific information about assesment, entry requirements, etc.):
Attendance during all meetings for the introduction and the presentation of the three topics is a requirement. Each student has to spend approximately 15 hrs to finalize the task for each topic.

Credits will be given on basis of the student’s participation.

Goals:
The student must be able to:

1. analyze, solve and evaluate a wide scope of advanced problems which an engineer in the field of ship and offshore structures can be confronted with in his daily practice, as e.g.: analysis of collision phenomena, ultimate longitudinal strength of ships, nonlinear plate bending, etc.

2. apply concept structural design on ships with special duties

3. optimize constructions in view of object functions and penalty method for constraints

4. synthesize knowledge from a variety of disciplines required to tackle problems

5. make a motivated choice between the use of fast but global engineering methods or more accurate, time consuming modern first principles methods, for a given type of problem to be solved

6. recognize how modern developments in industry may require knowledge of advanced methods

Computer use:

Laboratory project(s):

Design content:
The topics dealt with will in general have direct or indirect impact on the design of ship and offshore structures. The tasks will address this aspect.

Percentage of design: 50%