naval architecture

Since the advent of ships, naval architecture has evolved and become complex over time. From the primitive era, before aviation and mechanical vehicular traffic, we had wooden-hull ships driven by sails or hand oars. Now, we have advanced vessels relying on diesel-electric or nuclear propulsion, and sometimes autonomically controlled, thanks to the age of cutting-edge computation and digital technologies. 

In a basic sense, the areas of naval architecture chiefly deal with 5...

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Ship design is a convoluted process that involves multiple steps before the construction and fabrication work is commenced. When we use the word convoluted, it not only means complex but also a roadmap where with each stage, the methodology becomes more specific and refined and the shipbuilding process gets closer to being commenced. 

The various stages of ship design are discussed below.

Unlike a car or a commercial aircraft, a ship is designed specifically based on theexact...

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Under normal circumstances, water is an incompressible fluid, meaning its density and volume do not change with applied pressure or force. When a finite body is placed in water, two things happen:

1. The body exerts or imparts a force on the water medium by virtue of its weight. 
2. The body tends to displacea certain volume of water with which it is directly interacting. 

These two phenomena are the basis for all our explanations.

When the first happens,...

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To perform a Draft Survey, it’s essential first to determine the correct draft to enter into the Hydrostatic Tables. But what exactly is this draft, and how do we derive it with precision?

Imagine we are pioneers in conducting a Draft Survey, with no established procedures at hand.

We know our goal: to determine the vessel’s Displacement, a parameter obtainable through the Hydrostatic Tables, using the draft. But the question remains—which draft should we use?

Initially, one might consider taking...

https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/mastering-draft-surveys-how-to-derive-the-perfect-draft-for-hydrostatic-tables/

Global shipping moves around 80 per cent of all the cargo and essential commodities worldwide and is the backbone of the international logistics chain.

The majority of this cargo is carried by cargo ships, which have ballast tanks at the bottom. These tanks are filled with seawater at the starting port where the empty vessels sail to maintain balanced navigation; when the ship arrives at the destination port, the water in the ballast tank is discharged.

This traditional conception of cargo water...

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