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Good day readers! Ever wondered what makes a ship unstable and why do we need concepts of stability. Well, this article is an attempt at making the idea clear. Ship stability is a field of naval architecture that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and waves. Stability calculations include…
Introduction A rotor sails or flettner rotor is a clean cylinder with disc quit plates that is spun alongside its lengthy axis and, as air passes at proper angles throughout it, the Magnus effect reasons an aerodynamic pressure to be generated within side the route perpendicular to each the lengthy axis and the route of…
If you want to move forward, you have to push from backward. Well, propeller does this work in ships. But, Will its construction vary from ship to ship? If yes, what are pitch propellers? what are its types? Pros and cons of FPP and CPP? Why CPP is preferred over FPP or vice versa? We…
Atomic energy was one of the most important breakthroughs in 20th century. It gave many opportunities to the man kind, which found its use in military. Many developed countries started building its own nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. But why not nuclear-powered merchant ships? Why nuclear-powered reactors are preferred over diesel powered engines in warships?…
You might have often seen videos or pictures of ships tipping from one side to the other and getting destabilize while moderate waves crash against the ship. Most of the times, this is because of a failure in one of their systems, the stabilizers. We’ll find out how do these stabilizers actually balance a ship…
To ensure the stability and safety of the ships, we need to weigh them. But our ships weigh approximately 200,000 tons. I doubt that there is no such device to calculate this amount of weight. So, how do you do that? We actually don’t weigh them. we use a combination of scales and Archimedes principle….
As soon as we see warships, anywhere around the sea, or in an image, we immediately know that they are made to be stealthy. But we never ask what exactly makes the ship stealthy, and from what object does the ship hide itself to become stealthy. We will start from right from the basics, and…
