Ship hydrostatics and stability / Adrian Biran, Ruben Lopez-Pulido.

Ship Hydrostatics and Stability 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 pract...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Biran, Adrian
Other Authors: López-Pulido, Rubén
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014.
Edition:Second edition.
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Summary:Ship Hydrostatics and Stability 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 established resource takes in recent developments in naval architecture, such as parametric roll, the effects of non-linear motions on stability and the influenc.
Physical Description:1 online resource (415 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780080982908
0080982905
Language:Text in English with indexes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2013)