CHAPTER 5

SHIP HYDROSTATICS

5.1 INTRODUCTION

In this chapter we are going to see the topics that are related to Hydrostatics oil tanker.
Some characteristic parameters calculated for a floating ship, which can either directly
be used to comment on the nature of stability of the ship or be used to evaluate other
stability parameters, are called ship hydrostatics. It is mandatory in the design of a ship
to calculate and plot as curves a number of hydrostatic properties of the vessel’s from
at a series of drafts. Throughout its life a ship changes its weight, trim and freeboard,
its conditions at any state of circumstance can be found from the hydrostatics curves.
Hydrostatic particulars corresponding to different waterlines are calculated. The
calculation is done manually using various formula and also with software, Maxsurf
Stability module is used to calculate the hydrostatics of the ship. Naval architect must
estimate correctly main dimensions of ship and design coefficient such as CB, CM, CP
and CW which are identified on the abbreviation part of the thesis. The erroneous
estimations of hydrostatics can cause an unbalance for all design steps. For example;
according to reference (Barras, 2004), even to making a little change in the breadth of
the ship may solve a problem of instability. The main particulars of the vessel are
presented below in Table 3.5.

5.2 BONJEAN AREA

In the Bonjean calculation the sectional area and moment of each station up to each
waterline is calculated. This enables the calculation of displacement, LCB and VCB for
any waterline for even keel and also trimmed conditions.
The use of Bonjeans curve are:
 Hydrostatic calculations
 For flooding calculations
 Launching calculations
 Longitudinal strength calculations
The calculations are done manually with Microsoft Excel the results are in shown in
Figure 5.1.

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