Ship Hydrostatics and Stability (3^rd Ed.)

Ship Hydrostatics and Stability, Third Edition is a complete guide to understanding ship hydrostatics in ship design and ship performance, taking you from first principles through basic and applied theory to contemporary mathematical techniques for hydrostatic modeling and analysis. Real-life examples of the practical application of hydrostatics are used to explain the theory and calculations using MATLAB and Excel. The new edition of this trusted resource covers new naval architecture regulations such as Second Generation Intact Stability Code (SGISC) and new case studies based on recent capsize and ship stability disasters.

Extensive reference to computational techniques is made throughout and downloadable MATLAB files accompany the book to support the reader's own hydrostatic and stability calculations. The book also includes tables of notations and technical terms and indexes in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

1. Definitions, principal dimensions
2. Basic ship hydrostatics
3. Numerical integration in naval architecture
4. Hydrostatic curves
5. Statical stability at large angles of heel
6. Simple models of stability
7. Weight and trim calculation
8. Intact stability regulations I
9. Stability in Waves
10. Intact stability regulations II
11. Flooding and damage condition
12. Linear ship response in waves
13. Computer methods

Adrian Biran is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has a Dipl. Ing. Degree from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute and MSc and DSc degrees form the Technion. Adrian Biran worked as design engineer and project leader for IPRONAV in Bucharest, and Israel Shipyards and as research engineer in the Technion R&D Foundation in Haifa.
Rubén López-Pulido is a Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), UK, and the Spanish Association of Naval Architects (AINE). Former Maritime Attaché of the Embassy of Spain in London and Representative of Spain to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of UN. He was Naval Architect & Software Engineer at SENER working as developer of Naval Architecture Modules of FORAN System, a CAD/CAM/CAE software for ship design and shipbuilding. He was Hydrodynamicist and Stability of Ships Researcher at the CEHINAV (ETSIN-UPM) Madrid Ship Model Basin. In 2010 he received the Spanish National Best Outstanding Career Award for naval architects under 35 years of age, to recognize outstanding professional service and contributions to the maritime & shipping business, naval architecture and marine engineering community.