Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineerinfg

Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineerinfg

ISTANBULTECHNICALUNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND OCEAN ENGINEERINFG

DEPARTMENT OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE

2007-2008 SPRING TERM

SHIP DESIGN LECTURE

Assoc. Prof. Mustafa İnsel

Assist. Prof. Şebnem Helvacıoğlu

CONDITIONS

70 % attendance to lectures, submitting the term project just in time

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

Term exam% 30

Five Short exams% 15

Two Assignments% 5

Term Project%10

Final exam% 40

Week / DATE / SUBJECT
1 / 7 February / Introduction, Marine transportation system
Ship types
2 / 14 February / Spreadsheet use in design
Engineering design methods
3 / 21 February / Quiz / Ship types: General, general cargo, container, tanker,
4 / 28 February / I. Assignment given / Design spiral, design stages
5 / 6 March / Quiz / Displacement equation. Empirical ship dimensions
Displacement equation examples
6 / 13 March / Quiz / Weight estimation
II. Assignment given / Weight estimation examples
7 / 20 March / I. Assignment submitted / Economics of ship design
Quiz / Systematic design
8 / 27 March / Term project given / Midterm
9 / 3 April / Examples
10 / 10 April / Lackenby, hull form design
11 / 17 April / Rules and regulations
12 / 24 April / Quiz / Friboard and tonnage
13 / 1 May / Term project submitted / Designer
14 / 8 May / Rules and general arrangement design
  • Five short exams shall be given. Short exams shall be classic type and shall not be longer than 15 minutes. Short exam questions shall be about five papers in the reading list provided through both photocopy service and (
  • Two assignments shall be givenand submitted on given dates before the lecture as groups.
  • One term project shall be made with groups of two or three and submitted on given dates before the lecture.
  • Lecture tutorial discussions shall be between 13:00-14:00 on Wednesday.
  • Lecture notes shall be given to photocopy service and will be released on the web (
  • Exams (both term and final exam) shall be consisting of short multiple choices without notes and classic examination with notes available.

Reference

  • WATSON DGM, Practical Ship Design, Elsevier, 1998 (ML)

Useful References

  • ANDREWS D, Creative Ship Design, Transactions of RINA, 1981 (FL)
  • BUXTONIL, Engineering Economics and Ship Design (2nd ed), BSRA, Newcastle, 1976 (FL)
  • D'ARCENGELO AM, Ship Design and Construction, SNAME, NewYork, 1969 (ML)
  • GILLMER TC, Modern Ship Design(2nd Ed), Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland, 1986 (ML)
  • KAFALI K, 1988, Gemilerin Dizaynı, İ.T.Ü. Kütüphanesi No:1365, İstanbul 1988 (ML-FL)
  • KUO C, Computer Applications in Ship Technology, Heyden, London, 1977 (ML)
  • MANNING GC, The Theory and Technique of Ship Design, Wiley, New York, 1956 (FL)
  • MUNRO-SMITH R, Merchant Ship Design, Hutchinson, London, 1964 (FL)
  • MUNRO-SMITH R, Elements of Ship Design, Marine Media Management Limited, Londra, 1975
  • NUTKU A, Gemi Dizaynı, İ.T.Ü. Kütüphanesi No:377, 1970 (ML-FL)
  • SCHNEEKLUTH H., Ship Design for Efficiency and Economy, Butterworths London, 1987 (ML)
  • STOPFORD M, Maritime Economics, Unwin Hyman, London, 1988
  • TAGGART R, Ship Design and Construction, SNAME, 1980 (ML)
  • WATSON DGM, Estimating Preliminary Dimensions in Ship Design, Transactions of IESS, Vol:105, 1961-1962 (FL)
  • WATSON DGM, Designing Ships for Fuel Economy, Transactions of RINA, 1981 (FL)
  • ZUBALY RB, Applied Naval Architecture, Cornell Maritime Press, 1996 (ML)

Reading List

Quiz 1 / HERBERT R, The story of designing and building the first open-hatch ship with rectangular holds to carry newsprint, Ship Cargo- Cargo Ships, Mac Gregor Publications, 1979
Quiz 2 / WATSON DGM, GILFILLAN AW, Some ship design methods, TRINA, 1976
Quiz 3 / HOGG WAG, CIMINO D, Methodology to qualify and quantify preliminary ship design weight estimates, 36th Annual Conference of SAWE paper No:11, 1977
Quiz 4 / KRACHT AM, Design of bulbous bow, Transactions of SNAME, Vol:86, 1978
Quiz 5 / SCHETLEIN S, Main principles of modern superstructure design, University of Michigan , Report No: 275, December 1983

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