Marine Structural Mechanics

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: NAVARCH 410. E nforced Prerequisite: None. (4 credits) Failure modes encountered in ship and offshore structures. Von Karman plate equations. Geometric and material nonlinear analyses of beams and stiffened plates. Calculus of variations. Effective width and breadth of stiffened plates. Introduction to structural reliability theory with applications to marine structural design.