Shell Expansion

 

  Structural Design of Ships-1 SHELL EXPANSION DRAWING

12/16/2011 Department of Ship Technology Kurian Joseph (17)

 

INDEX

1. Aim...........................................................................................................................................Pg.No.2 . 2. Procedure.................................................................................................................................Pg.No.3

3. Selected Ship……………………......................................................................................................Pg.No.4

4. SED ..........................................................................................................................................Pg.No.8

5. Conclusion................................................................................................................................Pg.No.9

6. Reference...............................................................................................................................Pg.No.10

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1. AIM

The Assignment is to prepare the shell expansion of any ship on a drawing sheet. To avoid complications the bow and aft part are not drawn.

Shell Expansion Shell expansion is a two-dimensional drawing showing the arrangement of the shell plates, stiff stiffening ening members, all butts, seams, fillets welds etc. The drawing shows the various plate strakes and their identification number. The purpose of the t he drawing is to assist in the plate development and subsequently the cutting of the strakes prior to fabrication and erection.

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2. PROCEDURE The shell is expanded in the transverse plane, where longitudinal distances are measured relative to the centreline axis. All vertical dimensions in this drawing are taken around the girth of the vessel rather than their being a direct vertical projection. This technique illustrates both the side and bottom plating as a continuous whole. The girth of the main deck, tween deck, double bottom etc. is taken at each station and the ordinates are plotted to get the profile of the shell expansion. Bulkheads are fixed vertically and after that the strakes are decided. Strakes of steel plating are distinguished by letters from the keel onwards, the garboard stra strake ke being ‘A’. The plates in each strake are numbered from aft to forward. The girth of the ship decreases towards the ends and so the width of the plate must be decreased in these parts. To save making the plates too narrow, at the ends of the ship, a number of pairs of adjacent strakes are run in to one. This is done by means of a stealer plate. The strakes taken from the midship and primary members are also plotted. The ma maximum ximum size of the plate is 10m x 3 m and other checks which are done on shell expansion are given below.

       

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The minimum distance between two butt welds is 200mm.

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The minimum distance between any other two welds is 100mm.

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The angle between two seams at the joint should be greater than 60 .

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Butts or seams at the position of stiffening member should be avoided.

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3. SELECTED SHIP & OTHER DETAILS

The selected ship is a Multipurpose General Cargo Vessel designed under the Lloyd’s Register of Shipping rules and regulations. The ship has a deadweight of about 22000dwt. The vessel should run at a speed of 14.5 knots and its area of operation is from Mumbai  – – Mombasa – Toamasina – Mumbai. Multipurpose General Cargo Carrier as the name indicates is a ship, which should be able to handle multiple requirements such as the ability to carry general cargo (cargo in granular form, bale form, sacks, etc), palletised cargo (containers or any other similar packing) and heavy loads in general.

LOA LBP

163.7 158.4

m

B (mld) D (mld) T (mld)

24.2 14.75 10.2

m m

Deadweight Speed Radius of Action

22000 16

t kn

6100

nm

m

m

The attached body plan has dimensions. 24.2cm x 14.75cm ( the y axis of sed has a scaling of 1:100)

& the shell expansion drawing dimensions are estimated to be. 105.6cm x 26.2cm(the x axis of sed has a scaling of 1:150)

Table of girth length :

stn

0

8.9

cm

stn

0.5

10

cm

stn

1

14.67

cm

stn stn

1.5 2

17.9 18.5

cm cm

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stn

3

19.83

cm

stn

4

21.06

cm

stn

5

22.7

cm

stn

6

24.15

cm

stn

7

25

cm

stn

8

25.75

cm

stn

9

0

cm

stn

10

26.2

cm

stn

11

0

cm

stn

12

26.11

cm

stn

13

25.8

cm

stn

14

25.47

cm

stn

15

24.5

cm

stn

16

23.43

cm

stn

17

21.36

cm

stn

18

19.07

cm

stn

18.5

17.41

cm

stn

19

16.7

cm

stn

19.5

16.25

cm

stn

20

15.8

cm

The standard plate dimensions taken are : Keel Strake - 1m x 6m Garboard Strake – 2m x 6m Bilge Strake – 2.5m x 6m Sheer Strake – 2.2 x 6m Other plates are cut keeping in mind the need for minimizing the cutting of plates and the need for continuity or continuous seam length.

Table showing bilge length for drawing the bilge strake :

Aft

stn stn

10 9

11.87 -

cm cm

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stn

8

11.5

cm

stn

7

11.3

cm

stn

6

10.68

cm

stn

5

9.825

cm

stn

4

9.136

cm

stn

3

8.6935

cm

stn

2

-

cm

stn

1.5

-

cm

stn

1

-

cm

stn

0.5

-

cm

stn

0

-

cm

Fore stn

-

11

cm

stn

12

11.79

cm

stn

13

11.5536

cm

stn

14

11.384

cm

stn stn

15 16

10.767 10.4132

cm cm

stn

17

9.4184

cm

stn

18

8.797

cm

stn

18.5

8.233

cm

stn

19

-

cm

stn

19.5

-

cm

stn

20

-

cm cm

General Arrangement plan & Body Plan :

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4. SED

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5. CONCLUSION

Body plan was obtained plotting spline curves in Autocad. Necessary scaling was done. The outline for the ship girthwise was drawn and thus finally the shell expansion was dra drawn. wn.

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6. REFERENCE

a.  Ship Construction – D.J.Eyres b.  Project Report, MV Veera - CUSAT c.  Merchant Ship Construction – Pursey

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