AOE 5074 Advanced Ship Structural Analysis

(Chapters 1, 9 & 11-14 of Ship Structural Design) The course is entirely web-based No need to come to a common location. You can attend from any location where there is Internet access (home, work, on travel even on board a Navy ship). Three 30-minute classes, one of which is live (Wed.) The other two are Monday and Thursday, at a time of your choosing. All three are recorded; you can go back and replay them. This is especially valuable for making up missed classes.
Introduction

Syllabus and Topics

Note: The course that includes the ship structures program MAESTRO is AOE5374 Rationally-Based Design of Ship Structures. It will be next offered in Fall 2009.

AOE5074 Advanced Ship Structural Analysis Methodology of rationally-based computer-aided optimum structural design of ships and other large vehicles and thin-wall structures based on explicit calculation of failure loads. Elastic and inelastic plate bending. Elastic and inelastic buckling of columns, plates and stiffened panels. Computer programs for ultimate strength analysis and structural design. Sample applications. Percent of Time Topic Methodology for Rationally-Based Optimum Structural Design 10 Computer Modeling of Ship Structures 15 Buckling (elastic and inelastic) of Columns 15 Buckling (elastic and inelastic) and Vibration of Plates 15 Buckling (elastic and inelastic) of Stiffened Panels 20 Failure of Large Structural Modules Due to Bending and Shear 10 Applications of Computer Programs for Ultimate Strength 15 100

PID
However, none this can be done until you have a Virginia Tech Personal ID (PID) and password. When you are accepted by the Graduate School they mail you a PID and temporary password. If you are already accepted and dont know your PID or password you can get help by sending email to 4help@vt.edu or by calling 540 231 4357. The CRN (Course Registration Number) for this course has not yet been assigned.

I will use three ways to present the material to you.

1. One Live Class per week On Wednesday evenings, 5:30 to 6:00, we will have the live class (2-way audio, 1-way video). The first class will be on Wed. Aug. 27. I will also record each live class (audio & video) using CentraOne software. Because of that, at any time in the future, you will be able to log on to the CentraOne website and play back the class on your PC, or on any other PC providing that you first download the CentraOne software to that PC.

Live Class

2. Two Recorded-only Classes per week The other two classes will be Powerpoint presentations with voice-over. I will record these and make them available on the Blackboard AOE5074 website by 3:00 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. At any time thereafter you can download and play them. You will be able to pause, skip forward and back, etc. The PowerPoint slides are sized for 600800 pixels. If your monitor has a higher resolution, then the slide will not fill the full screen (e.g. if it is 12001600 the slide will occupy only of the screen).
Recorded-only classes

3. Course Website using Blackboard Starting about three days before the course begins, we will have a Blackboard website where you can Read announcements. Download course documents, such as Problem Sets and worked solutions to homework. Download copies of all of the Powerpoint pages from all classes both live and recorded only. These will be available before the class so that you can print them and have them with you. Upload your homework files. You will do all homework calculations using MathCad, and after a week or so you will like it so much you will use it for all your mathematics. More on that later. Take quizzes. The URL for Blackboard is www.learn.vt.edu

Course Website

AOE5074 Advanced Ship Structural Analysis

The textbook is Ship Structural Design, by Owen Hughes Available only from: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. You should order it from the SNAME website www.sname.org The list (nonmember) price is $130. The member price is $90. As a student you get a further $25 discount, and so the price for you is $65 (plus $8 for Shipping). The annual dues for Student Member is only $35. Thus you are getting a net savings of $30. In addition, you get a free subscription to the SNAME journal, Marine Technology, for which the list price is $250 per year. Therefore if you are not already a member you should first join online. Enter my name Prof. Owen Hughes - as your Faculty Advisor. Shortly afterward you will get an email giving you your member ID number. On the SNAME website go to Publications for Sale, then to Books & Reports, then select Ship Structural Design and click on Add to Shopping Cart.
Textbook

Student Discount
You will now see Are you a member? Click on Yes and enter your member ID number. There is no place to request the $25 student discount, and so it will look as if you are being charged $90. However, SNAME always checks the name against their membership list, and they will charge you the correct amount: $65 plus $8 shipping (UPS Ground). If you have any problems, either with joining as a Student Member or purchasing the book, you can do either or both by telephone. The number is 1 800 798 2188, ext. 5068 (Tommie-Anne Faix, who is in charge of book sales).

Assessment
Homework 3 50 min. quizzes @ 10% 1 2 hour midterm exam 1 2 hour final exam 20% 30 20 30

Homework
will be assigned in every class. It is due by 10 am 3-5 days later: Class day Mon Wed Thurs Homework due Thurs Mon Mon

This gives you at least 3 evenings to do it

For the homework you must use Mathcad, and send the resulting file to the Course Website Assignment folder. The manufacturer is PTC (formerly Mathsoft). Get Mathcad 14 from: http://academicsuperstore.com ($125 free shipping) or http://www.JourneyEd.com ($130 - $30 rebate = $100) Academic ID is required. (Non-student price is $1200) Think of it as a required textbook. Get your own copy, so you always have it. If you have an earlier version (11, 12 or 13) you can use that. I think you will find Mathcad to be useful for all your mathematics, and youll wonder how you ever got along without it. Order it early, so that you will have it for the first class. If it doesnt arrive in time you may fax your homework to the AOE Dept. at 540 231 9632. Attach a cover sheet with my name. Write your name and the page no. on every page.
Mathcad

Homework Policy
The homework deadline is rigid, for several good reasons: You perform better, and learn more, if you do it promptly You keep up with the topics, and that is necessary because each topic builds on previous topics It allows me to give you prompt feedback. I will post the worked solutions on the website on the same morning that the homework is due. Therefore no late homeworks. Even on travel, you still have three evenings to do it and send it. Give it your best shot. Missed homeworks will not be counted. Your homework grade will be based on the homeworks that you submit on time. There is enough homework for this to be feasible. The Topics, book pages, Problem Sets and homework assignments will all be posted on the Course Website, so you can also move ahead and do the homework early. I will return the graded homeworks to the Assignments folder.

If you miss
If you cant avoid missing a homework, I encourage you to do it anyway, for your own benefit, because the quizzes and exams will be on the same material as the homework. Also, I recommend that you not look at the worked solution until you have done the problems (unless you are really stuck). Looking at a worked solution makes a problem look easy and obvious, and it might cause you to learn less, retain less and become a little overconfident.

Quizzes
The dates of the quizzes will be shown in the Course Schedule, on the website. Once they are available, please discuss them with your Supervisor to at least avoid foreseeable problems. On those days the quizzes will become available on the Course website for a pre-announced period (e.g. 5-12 pm). They will all be open book and will be timed (probably 50 minutes). No make-up quizzes. An early quiz is possible. If you foresee that you will miss a quiz because of travel and no Internet access, send me, by email, an earlier time period within which you could access the quiz. If you cannot avoid missing a quiz, the other two quizzes will count for 15% each. The first quiz will be on a Wednesday, which is a live class. This will allow for questions.

Exams
The dates of the Mid-term and Final exams will also be given in the Course Schedule. Both of them are open book, and will become available on the Course website for a pre-announced period (e.g. 4-12 pm). They will both will be on a Wednesday evening so that you have the usual live session to ask questions. You must fax the completed exams to me by 10 am the next day. Again, once these dates are posted, please discuss them with your Supervisor to at least avoid foreseeable problems. On the Monday before the Final Exam I will schedule a special live class in which I will give a review of the Course and answer questions.

No copying
Do your own work All homework, quizzes and exams must be your own work, and you must not allow others to copy your work. You may discuss the lecture material and homework assignments with others and you may give and receive qualitative assistance (advice, guidance). But whatever you submit must be entirely your own work. Anything else is a violation of the Virginia Tech Honor Code.

Questions
by email hugheso@vt.edu

if they involve sketches or math, use Mathcad if possible. If not use fax: 540 231 9632
If sent before noon I will try to respond the same day (no guarantee). Mondays and Wednesdays will be difficult. The best time is during the live class on Wednesday night.