Buckling of Ship Structures

• Main Author: Shama, Mohamed (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Structural Mechanics.; Mechanical Engineering.

Buckling of Ship Structures presents a comprehensive analysis of the buckling problem of ship structural members. A full analysis of the various types of loadings and stresses imposed on ship plating and primary and secondary structural members is given. The main causes and consequences of the buckl...

Table of Contents:

• Scope of the book
• SI units
• Shipbuilding units
• Introduction
• Configuration and geometry of ship structure
• Bending of beams
• Hull girder loading and stresses
• Secondary loading and stresses
• Tertiary and local loading and stresses
• Compounding of stresses induced in ship structural members
• Buckling of beam Columns
• Buckling of ship plating
• Ultimate strength of ship plating
• Types and causes of ship structural failures
• Control of buckling failure of ship structure.