Specificity and Designing of Multi-Hull Ships and Boats/Специфика и проектирование многокорпусных судов и катеров

Книга на английском языке.
The book presents in brief the main results of the author’s sixty-year activity in science and engineering fields regarding the application of various multi-hull ships.
The shown data are based mainly on the wide experimental results of the author. The towing and seakeeping tests were carried out in the basins of the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Center, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
For fullness of description, some problems are explained in brief by the experimental results of other authors, whose names are shown in the text and references.
The monograph presents a systematic and detailed description of the main aspects of naval architecture, design and analysis of multi-hull ships. The scope of topics includes a brief history of applications, a list of types, hydrostatics and stability, towing resistance and propulsion in calm water and high seas, seaworthiness, maneuverability, external loads, structural arrangements and strength, general arrangement, conceptual designs, and specifics of applying the multi-hull concepts to various fields of marine transportation and service.c

Contents
Preface
Brief History and Contemporary Applications
Introduction Types of Vessels and Their Main Specificity
Chapter 1 Specificity of General Arrangements
Chapter 2 Stability and Non-Sinkability
Chapter 3 Performance at Smooth Sea
Chapter 4 Seaworthiness
4.1. General Features of Seaworthiness
4.2. Slamming, Upper Deck Wetness and Dimension Selection
4.3. Numerical Estimation of Seakeeping, Method and Algorithm
4.4. Achievable Speeds of Two Small-Sized Vessels in Head Sea
Chapter 5 Maneuverability
Chapter 6 Strength and Hull Structure Mass
Chapter 7 Designing
7.1. General Notes on Type Selection
7.2. Some Examples of Design Processes
7.3. Some Examples of the Proposed Types of Multi-Hulls
Chapter 8 Appendices
Appendix 1. Tested SWA Hull Models and Test Results
Appendix 2. Interaction Coefficients of Dupluses
Appendix 3. Interaction Coefficients of Tricores
Appendix 4. Interaction Coefficient of Twin-Hull SWA Ships with Shifted Identical Hulls
Appendix 5. Interaction Coefficients of Ships with SWA Main Hull and Two SWA Outriggers
Appendix 6. Interaction Coefficients between SWA Main Hull and Two Outriggers of Usual Shape
Appendix 7. Wave Amplitudes of Fixed Twin-Hull SWA Models
Appendix 8. Propulsive Performance of Catamaran of a Given Breadth
Appendix 9. Approximate Calculation of Resistance of Ships with Thin Hulls
Appendix 10. Some Proposed Standards of Motions
Appendix 11. Design Algorithm of SWA Ships
Appendix 12. Author’s Publications (Up to End of 2015)
Index