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The Finite Element (FEA) is powerful method for designing complex structures of frames, shell, or any large plated vessel like a ship subjected to dynamic loads at sea. Application of FEA in the design check of one compartment of the ship structure has now been made compulsory by the International Ship Classification Societies for all ships more than 150 metre in length. Unfortunately, the FEA technologies are monopolized by those 4 or 5 such Societies and there is no text books on the Design of Ship Structure by FEA.
Though the FEA design check of one compartment of a ship is mandatory, the principal design of main ship hull girder is still based on the classical Beam Theory, consisting of a wide variety of prescriptive Rules and Regulations developed upon few centuries of ship building experiences and ship structure failures. No wonder, the universities (like IIT, Kharagpur and Madras, and other Institutions) are not directly offering any specific course on application of FEA to Ship Structure. Neither, FEA is a part of the undergraduate syllabus in Naval Architecture till recently.
Application of FEA is now predominantly restricted to the civil engineering structures and shell and researchers and Professors of FEM has so far not sought FEA applications to sips.
One or two Text Books in the design of ship structure by FEA can dramatically change the situations. The Naval Architecture faculties can take up courses on the design ship structure by FEA, if appropriate Text Books come in the market.
Dr. M.K. Ghosh Roy, B Tech (Hons) NA, IIT Kharagpur and Ph D (Mech) in Stress Analysis from the Bombay University, got his shipbuilding training in Hamburg, Germany and training in Ship Safety, Survey and Inspection in London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne under Government sponsorship. He has travelled to all principal maritime countries, their Shipyards and Institutions. During his professional career in India, he worked at the following positions in Shipbuilding and Ship design, Ship Safety and Inspection and higher Naval Architectural Education. (i) Chief Ship Surveyor in the Directorate General of Shipping, Government of India; (ii) Chief General Manager, heading the Ship Division and reporting to the Chairman, Garden Reach Shipbuilders Ltd, a large Defence Undertaking, GOI (iii)Senior Professor and Head, Naval Architecture Division, IIT Madras He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institution of Naval Architects, Mumbai, India. He is author of 7 Books of which ‘Sustainable Development – Environment, Energy & Water Resources’ is published jointly by Ane Books and CRC Press.
Contents :
Part I Basic Matrix Method of Structural Mechanics
1 Basic Vector and Matrix Principles
2 Solutions of Simultaneous Equations
3 Basic Numerical Integration
4 Strain Energy and Virtual Work Principles
5 Basic Matrix Method of Structural Analysis
6 Theory of Elasticity and Deflection of Thin Plates
Part II Introduction to Finite Element Analysis: Basic Theory and Application
7 Concept of a Finite Element Continuum to Discrete Element
8 Analysis of Plane Stress in Finite Element
9 Analysis of Isoparametric Finite Elements
10 Analysis of Bendable Plate Finite Element
11 Analysis of Shell of Flat Finite Elements
12 Analysis of Vibrating Finite Element
13 Analysis of Stiffened Plate Finite Element
14 Assembly of Individual Finite Elements into a Larger Continuum
15 Adaptive Finite Element Analysis – Refinement of Meshes
16 Programing Guidelines for Triangular Finite Element Analysis
Part III Design of Ship Structure: By Finite Element Analysis
17 Basic Ship Structure Strength Theories
18 Direct Strength Assessment of Ship Structure: By Finite Element Analysis
19 Loading of a Ship at Sea in Still Water and Waves
20 FEA Mesh Modelling of Ship Structure
21 FEA of Ship Plate Finite Element: Under Bending and Shear
22 FEA of Real Ship Hull Stiffened Plate Element
23 FEA of Ship Structure by Substructuring
24 FEA Program Guidelines and Exercises for Ship Structure
25 FEA Mathematical Applications for Ship Structure
26 Widening FEA Applications to Ship Structure
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