NAVAL ENGINEERING PDH COURSES

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This course provides an overview of Naval Engineering Fundamentals, as it applies to general engineering practice and ship building methodology. This course covers topics such as: be familiar with engineering graphing, drawing, and sketching techniques.

This introductory course in naval engineering is meant to give each student an appreciation in each of the more common areas of study.  It is meant as a survey course that will give some good practical knowledge to every officer assigned to naval service on land, sea or in the air

This course delves into the topic of hydrostatics, mainly dealing with forces of water on ships and how shifting weights on a ship affects the stability. Topics include calculating the absolute pressure below the surface of the water, application of Archimedes' principle.

This course explores stability in the context of naval engineering, In this chapter we are concerned with the ability of the ship to remain upright when external forces are trying to roll it over.  Understanding overall stability comes down to understanding the relative positions of weight.

This course covers the various properties of materials that are used in a maritime environment. Topics such as: material characteristics, methods of non-destructive testing, interpretation of stress-strain diagram and identifying the regions within, as well as understand different types of loadings such as tension, compression, shear and torsional.  

This course is meant to act as a primer on topics related to ship structures, including structural components and the challenges associated with ship design. In this course topics such as: shear stress in relation to ship structure, hogging and sagging, identify waves that can increase hogging and sagging, using elastic flexure formula to describe the distribution of bending stress, identifies major components of a ship, and identifies the modes of structural failure.  

This course will investigate the differing forms of hull resistance, ship power transmission, and the screw propeller. Additionally, we will investigate ship modeling and how full-scale ship resistance and performance can be predicted using models in a towing tank.

This course will examine the way the sea influences ship response, which responses are the most damaging to its operation and what the ship operator can do to reduce them. The responses of the ship will be the motions we associate with a ship underway such as roll, pitch, and slamming and its structural loads.  

This course will explore the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic properties of submarines and compare them with those possessed by surface ships. In many instances the differences will be considerable. It will also look at the structure, construction and layout of submarines and their dynamic behavior through the water. 

 This course addresses the optimal use of materials in ocean systems with emphasis on corrosion prevention, fracture mechanics, and basic materials science. This section of the course covers topics such as: materials in the marine environment, corrosion and electromotive potential.

This course addresses the optimal use of materials in ocean systems with emphasis on corrosion prevention, fracture mechanics, and basic materials science. This section of the course covers topics such as: microstructure of materials, metals and alloys, stress, deformation, fracture of materials, fatigue, wood, concrete, and composites.

This course, which is volume 1 of 2, covers topics in seakeeping and maneuvering. The main topics discussed in this section are: introduction to seakeeping, intact statical stability, and wave inputs. Topics covered include linearized motion of a ship in waves, including introduction to regular wave theory and a statistical representation of irregular waves