Hydrostatics Books

Can anyone recommend a good book on hydrostatics? I have the Hydrostatics 1 and 2 books from the westlawn lite course but would like to learn more.

 

"Ship Hydrostatics and Stability" by A. B. Biran (ISBN 0 7506 4988 7) is a very good book.

Also well-written is "Ship Stability for Masters and Mates" by D. R. Derret (ISBN 0 7506 4101 0), but as the title suggests, it is intended for a different audience than naval architects and therefor very "practical" without too much detail on theory.

 

What aspects of "hydrostatics" do you want to learn more about? The subject ranges from the minutiae of stability regulations to mathematical theory with a huge amount in between.

Principles of Naval Architecture, Volume I 1988 (out of print) has a chapter on Intact Stability and another on Subdivision and Damage Stability, both a traditional naval architecture approach, and includes examples.

Intact Stability Colin S Moore was intended to be the replace for the chapter of the same title in PNA. It is available from SNAME.

Basic Ship Theory Volume 1 K J Rawson and E C Tupper, a naval architecture text, has several chapters relevant to hydrostatics including Floatation and trim, Stability, and part of Hazards and protection.