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Price: $84.92 Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8171
EAN: 9780750641012
Edition: 5
ISBN: 0750641010
Label: Butterworth-Heinemann
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 447
Publication Date: September 30, 1999
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Studio: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Product Description:
This well-established textbook has been fully reviewed and updated by a new author to ensure a modern coverage of the contents in depth. A new unique introduction has been written, giving ship types together with their general characteristics, to indicate to the reader actual or typical sizes of modern day merchant vessels.
Four new chapters have been added dealing with Ship Squat, the Deadweight scale, Interaction and The Trim and Stability book. A new section, on Draft Surveys, is included in the Appendices. In order to give the student a better understanding of ship strength, four smaller but more detailed chapters replace the chapter covering this subject area in the previous edition.
Ship Stability, with respect to motions, can be defined as the ability of a ship to return to an initial condition after she has been subjected to disturbing forces and moments. Ship Stability can also exist with respect to materials stresses and forces, where it is the ability to return to an initial state after being subjected to external or internal forces. Careful attention has been paid to the basic principles of ship stability and ship strength. Included is a generous provision of worked examples and exercise questions with answers. These ensure that the maritime student who works through this book will have a clear grasp of the topics covered. Up-to-date syllabuses and recent examination papers are included at the end of this book.
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This is a great stability book that is essential to anyone wanting to understand ship stability. It has been and probably still is one of the mainstays of all nautical colleges. I would recommend it to anyone except for one caveat:
I owned a early version before Barrass hijacked the book to pamper his own ego. Squat is an important issue and Barrass is a known scolar in the subject but he is using this to forward his own formula's rather than be impartial. If one reads the book it is written in the third party (as one would expect) until his chapter where it is in the first person.
It wouldn't be so bad if the information contained within his chapter was correct but he uses incorrect examples (ie Sea Empress and Capella Voyager) and suggests everyone else is wrong about the loading of bulk carriers by the stern (evidence suggests otherwise), his manner is one of authority and will condemn anyone who contradicts him (ask the Houston pilots).
So would I buy the book again? Probably but I would try and buy an earlier version before Barrass took it over. By all means buy for the rest of the book and keep open mind that there are better squat formulae than Barrass's! That's the reason for 4 stars.
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This is a very good book in ship's stability. Is centered in the practice but not missing the theory beneath. Very good value/price ratio
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For those persons who need to know and fully understand ship stability this is the only book you will ever have to own. its gives clear and simple instructions aswell as worked example of all aspects of stability.
Even for those who are not at the mates or masters level, this book will certainly aid you in understanding the basics.
A must own book for those who need to understand.
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