It depends what you are calculating. For ships designed according to SOLAS: When calculating probabilistic damage stability - automatic self...
Classification societies generally recommend a per container VCG of 45%, homogeneously loaded. Some will also require a 50% vcg loadcase. For...
Napa will also be releasing a book "Introduction to Napa" in the fall of 2012. Maybe that will be useful to you.
Damage stability workshops Hi Sudhir, I think it's definitely possible for a mechanical engineer to do naval architecture and stability,...
Pascal, I assume you work for BV, (so you approach this from the point of view of classification society) but coming from the point of view of a...
SPS Damage Stability When you say the calculation process is the same as SOLAS, but only required index is different, I think you are...
Hi sudhir, Yes command based is not as user friendly, but once you get the hang of it it is a lot faster than mouse based programs (similar to...
seachests in napa Hi Sudhir, so you have decided to start using Napa? That is nice to hear, in my opinion it is the best stability package out...
Napa user manuals The napa online manuals have many examples and documents from the user meetings which are like tutorials. Have you looked there?
Principles of Naval Architecture Based on how basic your question I have a hard time believing that you are not a student... But being a...
tank free surfaces I just want to add that what is said above is true for tanks with consumables, such as fresh water, gas oil, lube oil, but not...
Download NAPA Sudhir, Why don't you contact their sales department? Their website is www.napa.fi If you are actually saying that you want an...
Hey gonzo, i often do what you are describing, using napa. It has a loadcase editor where you can shift weights around and see the resulting...
nupas compared to foran I would choose Nupas over Foran because in my opinion it is more flexible and more intuitive to use. Although I have not...
ds - subdivision draught or design draught, this is decided by you or the result of the maximum summer draught from freeboard calculation dl -...