Mechanics of Ocean Engineering Structures

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to aerospace, marine, civil and mechanical structures; analysis of small deflections of beams, moderately large deflections of beams, columns, cables and shafts; elastic buckling of columns, thin-walled sections and plates; exact and approximate methods, energy methods, principle of virtual work, introduction to failure analysis of structures; examples from aerospace, civil, mechanical, offshore, and ship structures; collision and grounding of ships. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.