The Practical Design of Advanced Marine Vehicles
Publisher: University of New Orleans
Published: 2009
Number of pages: 362
Description: This text is a written version of University of New Orleans course “NAME 4177” in the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, College of Engineering. The course is a 13‐week twice‐a‐week elective, at the undergraduate Junior/Senior level.
This text will provide an introductory familiarity with the naval architecture of Advanced Marine Vehicles, with particular emphasis on Catamaran, SES and SWATH types. It is assumed that the students have a working familiarity with the naval architecture of conventional ships, and thus this course emphasizes the differences between conventional‐ship design and AMV‐design. The course is focused on early‐stage design, providing the tools for preliminary ship sizing in order to evaluate whether the AMV is the appropriate ship type for the mission. The course will include discussion of the particular features and benefits of the major AMV types, so that you can decide when one AMV type might be preferable over another. The course will begin with an overview of the types of AMVs. This is followed by discussions of each of the ‘nodes’ of the ship design spiral, e.g. Resistance, Propulsion, Structural Design, Arrangement, Maneuvering, etc
Notes: This work sponsored by: US Office of Naval Research Grant No: N00014‐09‐1‐0145