5003 Lectures - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

E5003 - Ship Structures I 41
© C.G. Daley
4.7. You are supervising a preliminary ship design project. You have asked one of your team
to produce a net load (weight-buoyancy) diagram, so that bending moments can be
calculated. The diagram you are given is ;
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Net Load Curve
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why is this diagram impossible? Justify your answer. (hint: use SFD and/or BMD)
4.8. For the three station profiles shown below, sketch the corresponding bonjean curves