Course code: mt044

Course name: Naval Ship Design 2005

This concerns a Course

ECTS credit points: 2

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology

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Lecturer(s): Mr. R. Brouwer MSc. (RNLN)

Tel.:  015 - 27

Catalog data:

Course year:

MSc 1^st year

Course language:

English on request

Semester:

2B

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Assessment:

Presentation

Assessment period:

2B

(see academic calendar)

Prerequisites (course codes):

Knowledge of all marine courses until 2nd year

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Detailed description of topics:

The course “Naval Ship Design” (NSD) is given as a co-operation between the Technical University and the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). During the lectures, miscellaneous aspects of warship design will  be discussed. Some subjects are:

• warship operations

• warship types

• weaponsystems

• platformsystems

• crew

• hydrodynamics

• vulnerability

• signatures

• nuclear biological chemical (NBC) fight and damage control (DC)

• structural design

Also a fleet visit in the navy harbour of the Netherlands (Den Helder) is part of the course.

A design assignment with corresponding presentation concludes the course. The credit for this course is 2 EC. The course instructor is Mr. R. Brouwer MSc. (RNLN)

Lectures are on thursday in semester 2B, hours 1-4.

Lecture dates:

• 14-04-05 Lecture 1

• 21-04-05 Visit tot fleet Den Helder

• 28-04-05 Lecture 2

• 12-05-05 Lecture 3

• 19-05-05 Lecture 4

• 02-06-05 Presentations of assignment

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