• Practical Ship Design records rules governing their construction and operation that are changing, their outcomes and the reasoning behind them
• Deals with all aspects of ship design and handles a wide range of both merchant ships and warships with authority
• Provides coverage of cargo ships and passenger ships, tugs, dredgers and other service craft
• Includes concept design, detail design, structural design, hydrodynamics design, the effect of regulations, the preparation of specifications and matters of costs and economics
• Likely to interest everybody involved in the design, construction, repair and operation of ships
• Students and the most experienced professionals will all benefit from the book's vast store of design data and its conclusions and recommendations

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction, Methods and Data
• Setting Design Requirements
• The Design Equations
• Weight-Based Designs
• Volume, Area and Dimension-Based Designs
• Powering I
• Powering II
• Design Of Lines
• Machinery Selection
• Structural Design
• Freeboard and Subdivision
• Stability and Trim — General
• Other Statutory Rules
• Special Factors Influencing Warship Design
• The General Arrangement
• General Arrangement of Some Ship Types
• Specification and Tender Package
• Cost Estimating
• Operational Economics
• Conversions

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