2005-2006 CATALOG
| Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering |
NAME 1151 Introduction to Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2107. An overview of the Maritime Industry, marine transportation systems, maritime organizations; types and purposes of commercial and naval ships, advanced marine vehicles and floating offshore structures, basics of ship building, operation, safety, maintenance and environmental protection; various disciplines of naval architecture; introduction to major ship systems. Includes generation and interpretation of ship drawings, technical drawings of components and machinery. Training in hand sketching and 2-D computer-aided design software. Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
NAME 2151 Introduction to Marine Design and Construction 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2111 or 2108, NAME 1151. Basic concepts of marine hydrostatics, resistance and propulsion, power systems, and seaway dynamics.
NAME 2160 Form Calculations and Stability 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 2350 and NAME 2151. Lines plan; static stability, hydrostatic curves, determination of areas, volumes, displacement; buoyancy of damaged vessels and stability, launching of ships, towing of off-shore platform structures and their emplacement.
NAME 3091 Naval Architecture Design Project 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of school. Individual or team study and evolution of a project involving engineering design, synthesis of systems in naval architecture. A comprehensive written report is required.
NAME 3092 Marine Engineering Design Project 3 cr.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of school. Individual or team study and evolution of a project involving engineering design, synthesis of systems in marine engineering. A comprehensive written report is required.
NAME 3093 Special Problems in Naval Architecture 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in naval architecture.
NAME 3094 Special Problems in Naval Architecture 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in naval architecture.
NAME 3095 Special Problems in Marine Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in marine engineering.
NAME 3096 Special Problems in Marine Engineering 1 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Seminar, independent study, and research participation in marine engineering.
NAME 3120 Ship Hull Strength 4 cr.
Prerequisite: ENCE 2351, MATH 2221. Longitudinal strength, simple beam theory, trochoidal wave and Smith correction; weight, buoyancy, load, shearing force and bending moment curves; midship section modulus; composite hull girder; transverse strength; strain energy and moment distribution methods; torsional strength; torsion of thin-walled, open sections; torque distribution; torsional loads; the use of classification society rules in the mid-ship section. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
NAME 3130 Marine Engineering I (Power Systems) 4 cr.
Prerequisites ENME 3770 and credit or registration in ENME 3720. Marine diesel engines, gas turbines, their operating characteristics, performance and environmental limitations; main reduction gears, electric power generation and electric propulsion; engine-propeller matching, propeller characteristics, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, cavitation, heat exchangers, valves, piping design, and auxiliary systems. Diesel engine selection for a given application and arrangement, determination of fuel requirements, development and sizing of a selected system for diesel engines. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory
NAME 3150 Ship Resistance and Propulsion 4 cr.
Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 3720 with NAME 2160 as a co-requisite. Ship resistance; dimensional analysis and similitude; model testing extrapolation; propulsion systems; propellers and their interaction with the hull; cavitation; super cavitating propellers; special craft, such as surface effect ships, submarines, and hydro-foils; and optimization. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
NAME 3160 Off-Shore Structure and Ship Dynamics 4 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2314, MATH 2221, ENCE 2351, ENME 3720, ENME 2750, and credit or registration in NAME 2160. Theory of ship and off-shore structure motions in response to ocean waves free vibration of single and multi degree of freedom systems; simple harmonic; general period, and random forced vibrations; transients; off-shore structure oscillations; the dynamics of launching and platform assembly; hull and propeller vibrations maneuverability; and design applications. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
NAME 3171 Marine Design Methods 4 cr.
Prerequisites: NAME 2160 and credit or registration in NAME 3150 or NAME 4154. Design spiral; Selection of principal dimensions, arrangement drawings, lines plan development, 3D-modeling, CAD-CAM; Hydrostatic and stability calculations; Resistance, propulsion and seakeeping estimates; Economical and environmental assessment; Structural design. Two hour lecture and one three-hour laboratory per week.
NAME 3900 Senior Honors Thesis 1-6 cr.
Prerequisites: admission to the Honors Program and consent of the director of the Honors Program and the chair of the school. Senior-level research and\or design project in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Thesis and oral examination required. May be repeated for credit with total hours not to exceed six.
NAME 4095 Special Topics in Marine Engineering 2 cr.
Course may be taken for credit three times.
NAME 4096 Special Topics in Naval Architecture 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 4096 and 4097.
NAME 4097 Special Topics in Marine Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing in engineering. Courses may be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours degree credit in NAME 4097.
NAME 4120 Ship Structural Analysis and Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 3120. Review of longitudinal strength; principal stress distributions and stress trajectories; local strength analysis; panels under lateral load; columns and stanchions; panels in buckling under uniform edge compression loading and panels under shear and combination loading; rational ship section design synthesis based on stress and loading hierarchy; primary, secondary, and tertiary stresses as criteria of strength in ship structural design, including grillage aspects.
NAME 4121 Analysis and Design of Floating Offshore Structures 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 2160. Design and analysis of floating offshore platforms in general. Unsteady hydrodynamics, linear and nonlinear water waves, prediction of wave forces on large and small bodies. Fluid pressure forces on moving bodies using relative motion approach and radiation/diffraction approach. Analysis and prediction of random waves and vessel response using spectral methods. Additional topics such as mooring analysis as time permits.
NAME 4122 Introduction to Marine Composites 4 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 3120. Composite materials are introduced presenting their classification, fundamental characteristics, and main advantages and disadvantages. Present and future applications within the marine industry are discussed together with the materials most commonly employed and available manufacturing methods. Elements of the mechanics of both laminate and sandwich topologies are analyzed. Additional topics cover their performance characteristics, failure, maintenance, repair, testing and regulatory aspects are. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory.
NAME 4130 Marine Engineering II 3 cr.
Spring and fall semesters. Prerequisite: NAME 3130. A study of ship propulsion systems, including waste heat utilization, availability, diesel engine performance, compressible pipe flow, shafting alignment, machinery vibration, and torsional vibration analysis.
NAME 4131 Reliability, Availability, and Maintenance
of Engineering Systems 3 cr.
(NAME 4131, ENME 4734, and ENEE 4131 are cross-listed) Prerequisite: MATH 2115. Review of probability and statistics; analytical stochastic models for component and system failures; strategies for inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement. Introduction to fault-tree and event-tree analysis; frequency and duration techniques; Markov models; and case studies.
NAME 4132 Management of Ship Life Cycle 3 cr.
Phases of ship life cycle, the economics of costs versus benefits, qualitative and quantitative analysis of marine systems, ship life cycle cost elements and total cost of ownership, systems engineering process modeling, ship design, production, maintenance and operation processes, decision making under uncertainty, databases, dynamic programming, risk-based decision making, management of human and organization error in ship operations concurrent engineering.
NAME 4133 Ship Production 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of department. An examination of the shipbuilding industry and ship construction techniques is provided including analysis of the market and management theory for shipyards, product work breakdown structure, modular methodologies, manufacturing methods, outfitting and painting techniques, shipyard layout and organization, planning/scheduling, and accuracy/quality assurance. Emphasis is placed on welding and lean six sigma practices.
NAME 4141 Curved Surface Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2112 and CSCI 1201. Computer-aided design of curved surfaces; wire-frame outlines of surface; boundary conditions; surface patches; geometric properties of surface; and smoothness.
NAME 4142 Solid Modeling 3 cr.
Prerequisites: MATH 2112 and CSCI 1201. Computer-aided design of mechanical piece parts and assemblies of parts; a high-level language for modeling parts and assemblies; dimensioning and tolerancing; and the mathematics that underlies solid models and computer graphics.
NAME 4151 Small Craft Design 4 cr.
Prerequisite: Credit or registration in NAME 3120. Case study of a 60-foot motor boat design, planing theory, trim, lift and drag in planning. Use of standard series, hydrofoil vessel performance calculations, sea keeping, hull structure, hull materials, powering using supercavitating propellers or pump-jet. Team Design project required for all students. Three hours of Lecture and three hours of Laboratory.
NAME 4160 Ship Hydrodynamics II 3 cr.
Spring and fall semesters. Prerequisite: NAME 3150. A study of ship hydrodynamic problems in the areas of viscous fluid motion, ideal fluid flow, two-dimensional hydrofoils, three-dimensional foils as well as propeller theory.
NAME 4162 Offshore Structures and Ship Dynamics II 4 cr.
Prerequisites: NAME 3150 NAME 3160 and MATH 2115. Linear oscillatory motion of floating bodies (Ships and Offshore Structures) due to water waves. Vibration theory, unsteady ideal flow theory, water wave theory, and linear ship motions theory. Prediction of ship platform motion in regular and irregular waves. Developments in hydroelasticity, maneuvering, and nonlinear ship motion. In addition a laboratory experience will allow the students to compare theoretical and computer predicted motions with measured motions in the wave/tow tank. A laboratory component is also included in the course.
NAME 4170 Marine Design 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENGL 2152, NAME 3130, NAME 3171, either NAME 3150 or NAME 4154, and credit or registration in NAME 3120. Preliminary ship and offshore structures design to meet owner’s general, environmental, and economical requirements; principal dimensions, form, power requirements and stability; outfitting; structural design; preparation of preliminary design drawings. Two hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory per week. Not for graduate credit.
NAME 4171 Admiralty Law for Engineers 2 cr.
Prerequisites: consent of department and Senior standing in engineering or equivalent. An introduction to legal problems which confront engineers in marine design, construction, and operation. Applies to river and ocean transport and offshore production.
NAME 4175 Marine Design Project 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Credit or registration in NAME 3160, NAME 4170. Completion of the project started in the prerequisite course; the preliminary design of a ship or other marine system component: hull, machinery, or an off-shore platform. Six hours of laboratory per week.
NAME 4177 Advanced Marine Vehicle Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Credit or registration in NAME 3150. A study of advanced marine vehicle design for high-speed transport; transport factor evaluation of high-speed craft, design of high multi-hull crafts, surface effect ships, hybrid vessels, and wing in ground craft. 3 units min/ 3 units max, Lecture
NAME 4181 Materials for Marine Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: CHEM 1017 and PHYS 1061. Elements of materials science and of the corrosion of metals; effects of marine environments on construction materials; and methods for selecting materials in the design of marine structures and marine equipment.
NAME 4182 Advanced Topics in Ship Structures 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 4120 or consent of department. Energy methods applied to elements of ship structure; principles of virtual work; plasticity: static collapse of beams and plates; application of plasticity to various ship structural topics: slamming ice strengthening collision protection transverse web frame; ultimate strength of ship girder; probabilistic aspects; distribution curves of capability and demand; combination of varying stresses of different frequencies - quasistatic and vibratory stresses; probabilistic design of the hull girder to an acceptable risk of failure.
NAME 4723 Ocean and Coastal Engineering 3 cr.
(ENCE 4723, ENME 4723, and NAME 4723 are cross-listed). Prerequisite: ENME 3720 or ENCE 3318 or consent of the department. Elements of wind and wave generation and forecasting, tidal phenomena, hurricanes, storm surge, tsunamis, interaction of waves and wind with coastal and offshore structures, coastal and estuary processes. Design aspects of various topics are discussed and analyzed: e.g., offshore structures, spar buoys, underwater pipelines, oil production risers, coastal protection, mooring cables, vortex shedding, gas flares, beach formation, harbor resonance, structure resonance, etc. A design project is required.
NAME 4728 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics 3 cr.
(NAME 4728 and ENME 4728 are cross-listed.) Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 3720. Classification of partial differential equations, mathematical description of fluid flow phenomena. Survey of various discretizaiton methods for the equations of fluid mechanics, including finite difference, finite volume and weighted residual methods. Basic algorithms for solving fluid mechanics problems. Introduction to grid generation. Application of existing CFD codes to practical engineering problems.
NAME 4735 Reliability in Engineering Design 3 cr.
Prerequisite: ENME 3020 or consent of department. Probabilistic approach to design and analysis of engineering problems. Statistical methods include point and interval estimation, tests of hypotheses, functions of random variables, and reliability analysis.
NAME 6080 Systems Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of department. Introduction to the fundamentals of systems engineering. Presents a holistic approach to principles, methods, and tools for system engineering as applied to complex systems development. Systems engineering includes the analysis of complexity through decomposition and re-integration, the prediction of emergent properties, writing and providing traceability for requirements, methods for uncertainty and risk analysis as applied to cost and technology, and evolution of design and operations. Focuses on the conceptual phase of product definition, including technical, economic, market, environmental, regulatory, legal, manufacturing, and societal factors. Various standards, guides, and handbooks are applied to establish a basis for synthesis to a system domain.
NAME 6081 Systems Architecture 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Consent of department. Encompasses the principles and methods for technical system architecture and architecting. Focuses on understanding and using architecting processes for complex systems throughout their life cycle from needs, design, production, and operations through disposal and recycling. Methods applied to the resolution of ambiguity and analysis of complexity in the development of boundaries, goals, requirements, and interfaces through decomposition and mapping of function to form, as well as functional and physical architectures descriptions and their external relationships. Includes the use of creative processes, including TRIZ and other methods, in the development of system architecture. The use of heuristics and non-analytic factors, as well as formal modeling, prototyping, and simulation methods. Includes the role, responsibilities, and deliverables of the system architect. Industrial and government case histories and studies are presented by speakers and faculty, as appropriate, based on various examples.
NAME 6093 Independent Study in Naval Architecture 1-6 cr.
Individual projects in selected fields of naval architecture. Independent work under the direction of a faculty member on a subject of mutual interest. A written report will be required. Course by be repeated for credit but no more than a total of six credit hours may be applied toward a degree. Section number will correspond with credit to be earned.
NAME 6097 Advanced Special Topics in Marine Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of school. Special lecture on subjects of current interest in marine engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours of degree credit in courses Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 4096, 4097, 6097, 6098.
NAME 6098 Advanced Special Topics in Marine Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: consent of school. Special lecture on subjects of current interest in marine engineering. May be taken for credit three times. No student may earn more than nine hours of degree credit in courses Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 4096, 4097, 6097, 6098.
NAME 6121 Marine Structural Vibrations 3 cr.
Prerequisite: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 3160 or consent of department. This course focuses on vibration of ship and offshore structures including linear, nonlinear, and random vibrations and dynamic problems (slamming). The problems of vibration of plates and shells of ship hulls are also considered.
NAME 6122 Composite Structures 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENCE 2351, MATH 2221. Composite materials used in engineering; calculation of characteristics of materials; theory of composite structures; strength, buckling, and vibration of composite plates and shells; thermal stresses; elements of the mechanics of sandwich structures.
NAME 6125 Advanced Offshore Engineering 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 4121 or consent of department. This course will continue the study of offshore engineering begun in the introductory course. This course will review unsteady hydrodynamics, linear water waves, Morrison’s equation approach to wave loading, and statistical description of ocean waves. Following will be a discussion of nonlinear water waves, diffraction and slowdrift forces. An advanced treatment of offshore platforms motions including the relative motion approach and numerical water wave diffraction and radiation methods. Also studied will be statistical prediction of short and long term extremes, reliability based design and viscous forces on cylinders. Additional topics as time permits.
NAME 6141 Curved Surface Analysis 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 4141 or consent of department. Measures of the geometric properties of fluid dynamic control surfaces such as ship hulls, aircraft skins, and pump impellers. Angles, thicknesses, distances, areas, intersections, and shape. Applications to manufacturing
NAME 6145 Parametric Hull Modeling and Shape Optimization 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 3150, NAME 3160, NAME 4141 or instructor’s permission. Parametric modeling of curves and surfaces, mathematical description of hulls, parametric design of ship and offshore structure hulls; Basics of optimization, optimization algorithms, multi-objective optimization, optimization of hulls with respect to resistance, propulsion and seakeeping based on stochastic models.
NAME 6160 Numerical Methods in Hydrodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: NAME 4160, CSCI 1201 or knowledge of computer programming. Numerical methods for the solution of governing equations in hydrodynamics. Use of numerical integration, finite difference methods, and use of viscous flow calculation software to calculate fluid pressure, force, and the flow field around geometric bodies and ship hulls.
NAME 6162 Ship Motions 3 cr.
Prerequisites: ENME 3020 ENME 3720 and NAME 4160 or consent of department. Derivation of the equations of motion of a ship in six degrees of freedom; ship maneuvering; design criteria for controls fixed stability; rudder design; waves and wave effects; ship response in regular waves; ship response in random waves; design criteria for a ship.
NAME 6164 Advanced Ship/Offshore Platform Motions 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 4162 or consent of department. This course will continue the study of ship and platform motions begun in the introductory courses and address some additional advanced topics. These advanced topics will include: finite amplitude coupled ship motions in six-degrees of freedom described by Euler’s equations of motion and Euler angle kinematics; nonlinear ship rolling motion and capsizing; ship maneuvering and control including rudder design and controls fixed stability; time-domain representation of hydrodynamic forces; analysis and design of motion reducing devices; etc.
NAME 6166 Probabilistic Ship/Offshore Platform Dynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisites: NAME 4162 or consent of department. Wind generated water waves which occur in nature are random. This course will continue the discussion of a vessel’s response to a narrow banded random seaway begun in introductory courses and consider non-narrow banded and non-linear effects. Needed stochastic concepts such as ensemble averages, correlation functions, stationary and ergodic random processes, and power spectra are developed heuristically. Various spectral formulations will be considered. Short-term and long-term design in a given sea spectrum versus a family of spectra will be considered. Wave record analysis and generation will be discussed. Order statistics and their relation to extreme values will be studied. Recent developments in the field will also be considered.
NAME 6168 Planing Hydrodynamics 3 cr.
Prerequisite: NAME 4160 and consent of the department. The principal contributions to the foundations of planing theory are reviewed to elucidate the driving physics of the planing hydrodynamics process and as a demonstration of the practical potential of Approaches to analysis of calm-water planing of general hard-chine hull forms. Planing boat sea keeping analysis is presented and applied to modern hull forms. Applications to catamarans, both calm water and seaway dynamics, is included via computational methods.
NAME 6175 Design of Fixed Offshore Platforms 3 cr.
(ENCE 6375 and NAME 6175 are cross-listed) Prerequisites: ENCE 3356 (or NAME 3120), ENCE 4358 (or NAME 3120), ENCE 4340, or permission of Department. Design of fixed offshore platform structures and their foundations; loadings, materials, design codes; design examples.
