This free online course explores constructional features of a ship's structure and its stresses and bulkheads. Bulkheads are designed to reduce the amount of flooding on ships. They divide functional areas into rooms and create watertight compartments. This construction and bulkhead course teaches ship dimensions and structure and its framing system. Gain knowledge regarding stowage, cargo hold inspection, cargo carriage capacity and static and dynamic stresses. You will also learn the advantages, design and construction of watertight bulkheads.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201697 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • List the ship terms for dimension and forms • Describe the construction of ship frames • Describe the general constructional feature and arrangement of various types of ships • Describe camber, the rise of a floor, flare, sheer and rake • Evaluate the cause and effect of hogging and sagging • Describe the cause and effect of racking, panting and pounding • Discuss the slamming and torsional stresses experienced by a ship at sea • Identify the proper names for various parts of the ship's hull • Describe various types of bulkheads used for the hull construction • Define the various types of bulkheads • Explain the uses of wash bulkheads and cross ties and describe procedures for testing bulkheads |
| Course Code | 3144 |
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