Design Guide for Ship Structural Details
Abstract
This report provides a designer with a guide to the selection of structural details for both naval and commercial ships. The details in the guide combine good service experience with reasonable construction costs. A simple method for determining approximate construction time for a wide range of detail sizes is presented. Details which have not performed well are also discussed to illustrate problem areas to avoid. Ship structural details are subject to various loads and combinations of loads: axial, bending, shear, cyclic, and dynamic. They connect structure that is part of the basic hull girder, structure that is designed for overload, and structure of secondary importance. Ship structural details are important because: (1) their layout and fabrication represent a sizable fraction of hull construction costs; (2) details are often the source of cracks and local failure which can lead to serious damage to the hull girder; (3) the trend towards decreasing ship hull scantlings has the potential of increasing the frequency and seriousness of cracks and failures at details; (4) analysis of structural details has been neglected, partly because of large numbers of configurations, functions, etc.; and (5) details influence the performance of the primary structural components.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 02, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA226973
Entities
People
- C. R. Jordan
- R. P. Krupen Jr.