Ship Design: Methodologies of Preliminary Design

This book deals with ship design and in particular with methodologiesof the preliminary design of ships. The book is complemented by a basicbibliography and five appendices with useful updated charts for the selection of the main dimensions and other basic characteristics ofdifferent types of ships (Appendix A), the determination of hull form from the data of systematic hull form series (Appendix B), the detaileddescription of the relational method for the preliminaryestimation of ship weig...