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Course Name	Turkish	Gemi Stabilitesi ve Güvenliği
	English	Ship Stability and Safety
Course Code	GEM 512E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Metin Taylan
Course Objectives		1. Understanding of advanced ship stability and new directions in ship stability and safety. 2. Analysis of nonlinear methods in ship stability with examples. 3. Coverage of new rules and regulations of IMO or other international organizations for various type ships.
Course Description		Brief summary of ship stability and chronological development. Nonlinear stability theories and methods such as harmonic balance, weighted residuals, Lyapunov and Melnikov methods etc. Analysis of dynamical ship stability. Roll motion, parametric resonance and their mitigation. Damaged stability of ships and capsize phenomenon and its significance and applications for various vessels. Stability of ro-ro ships and calculation of probabilistic damaged stability. International new rules and regulations in ship stability such as Stockholm agreement and their applications. Stability of new generation tankers. Stability of special vessels. New rules and regulations in ship and environmental safety and their immediate impact. Stability of sailing yachts and stability criteria.
Course Outcomes		Students who complete the course with success, will acquire the following qualities: 1. Able to understand the importance and scope of ship stability and safety concept, 2. Get acquainted with nonlinear ship stability and motions and solution of relevant problems, 3. To get familiar with the remedies to ship stability and safety problems both in design and operation stages, 4. Able to comprehend the logic and methodology behind ships stability rules and regulations and usage of stability criteria.
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Textbook		Belenky V.L., Sevastianov N.B. (2007). Stability and Safety Of Ships: Risk Of Capsizing, SNAME, Jersey City Biran, A.B. (2003). Ship Hydrostatics and Stability. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford. Kobylinski, L.K., Kastner, S. (2003). Stability and Safety of Ships. Elsevier, Oxford. Nayfeh, A.H., Balachandran, B. (1995). Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Analytical, Computational and Experimental Methods. Wiley Series in Nonlinear Sci., NY. Colin S. Moore Edited By J. Randolph Paulling (2010), Principles of Naval Architecture Series: Intact Stability, SNAME, Jersey City, USA.
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