BSc Nautical Sciences NAVAL ARCHITECTURE I Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 4.69, 4.70 and 4.71 of the Academic Council of 23 July 2020, in force from the academic year 2020-21. The University’s earlier Credit Based Semester and Grading System syllabus is what her older third-year timetables name, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for NAVAL ARCHITECTURE I
Module I: PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN: Common principles
- governing design and construction of various types of steel ships with respect to: (a) Longitudinal, transverse and vertical strength. (b) Continuity of strength (c) Strength – under static and dynamic conditions. (d) Stability (e) Water – tightness. (f) Conformity with statutory requirements.
Module II: STEEL FOR SHIP CONSTRUCTIONS: Types
- of steel used in ship construction. Steel plates and their treatment. Rolled sections – various shapes and standard sizes. Fabrication, Casting and forging and their use in construction. Testing of materials - various tests at production and building stages. RIVETING & WELDING: Riveting as a joining process. Welding – its predominant use in ship construction. Advantages of welding over riveting in ship construction. General ideas of Electric welding equipment, coated electrodes, methods used, etc. Gas welding, Gas cutting. Precautions while welding.
Module III: SHIP STABILITY: Use of displacement and
- TPC curves and scales to determine weight of cargo or ballast from draughts or freeboards. Metacentric height, Righting lever, Righting Moment. Stable, Unstable and Neutral equilibrium. Free Surface Effect. Stiff and Tender ships. Difference between heel and list. Use of hydrostatic tables and curves as supplied to ships. Calculations based on GM, GZ, Righting moment (Moment of statical stability), FSC, Hydrostatic curves, Hydrostatic Table, Hydrostatic Draft.
Reference Books
- 1 Ship Construction notes Kemp & Young
- 2 Ship Construction for Engineers Reid
- 3 Ship Construction Pursey
- 4 Ship Construction D J Eyres
- 5 Ship Stability at Operational Level Capt. H. Subramanium
- 6 Problems on MV Hindship Capt. Joseph & Rewari Objective: - This subject exposes the students to Environment Science – I and Marine Engineering & Control System- I Contents of Syllabus for US NSC 104 – Environmental Science - I
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Nautical Science) under the Choice Based Credit and Grading System, in force from the academic year 2020-21. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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