Ship Stability (N56 1110) – Feb’07

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Ship Stability : Mid-term Examination

Coverage

Use sketches where appropriate and show all steps of calculations

All calculations must be done using basic principles.
Attempt all exercises from Section 1 to 5.

1. Basic definitions.
2. Block and Waterplane-area coefficients and related calculations.
3. Density and Relative Density (Specific Gravity) and related
calculations.
4. Law of Flotation and the conditions that should be satisfied for a ship
to float at rest in still water and be upright, and related calculations.
5. Reserve Buoyancy, TPC and related calculations.
6. Why does the TPC change with the change of density of water and
also with ship’s draft?
7. Define:
a). FWA, DWA (and related calculations)
b). SW marks
c). FW marks
d). Lumber loadlines.
8. Finding Displ of MV Onesuch for a given draft in a particular density.
9. Finding Draft of MV Onesuch for a given Displ when floating in DW.
10. Sketching the loadline of a ship using dimensions given.
11. Righting (or Capsizing) Lever, Righting moments and related
calculations.
12. Initial Metacentre.
13. Initial Metacentric Height.
14. Tender and Stiff ships.
15. Equilibrium (Stable, Unstable & Neutral).
16. Effects shifting, adding or removing a wt, or suspending a wt from a
derrick and related calculations.
17. Picking up data (Displ, draft, TPC, KB, KMt etc) from MV Onesuch
hydrostatic table.

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