defining structural design goals

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My offer would only be a quick calculation of the scantlings so that you can calculate the weight with some reliability, not exactly. Then you can punish yourself as much as you want by learning to calculate the scantlings.:)
Hydrostatics is not that they can be calculated without weight, but they do not need weight at all.
 
Well yes you can do hydrostatics without the weight, but I still need to calculate it.
Im trying to stay focused on Structural analysis. I appreciate your offer, but if you do it then I learn nothing :)
For any structural analysis you need absolutely to estimate the stresses.
Or the displacement, or in another words the total weight is one of the primordial factors, as the length, the width, and the depth for the first gross determination of the stresses thus the structure of a boat...That means a preliminary drawing. Without entry data you cannot calculate or analyse.
 
..Your very naive questions and your answers specially to Ad Hoc or TANSL show your ignorance in this matter....

This thread has gone exactly the same way on his other threads.

Wants a simple one liner to satisfy a complex issue or one that requires reasoned understanding and analysis, and yet doesn't like questions of his questions etc... go figure.
 
He wants metrics but dismisses Lloyd's or any other classification society that gives metrics.
 
Plating in steel, you have the corrosion aspect also to consider. Thinner loses out in that calculation. What was adequate, becomes inadequate more easily.
 
Annode.
NA, I mean NA for something bigger than a dinghy or a coastal small sailboat, is a job with lots a theoretical stuff to learn, a few thousands of pages of regulations to read and to understand plus some ability for maths. After a few years of working in a NA office is a must. Idem for a NE. That ask for studies in some university or institutions.
Your very naive questions and your answers specially to Ad Hoc or TANSL show your ignorance in this matter. Ignorance does not mean stupidity, simply it means that you have not enough knowledge in the boat design field, and even less in structural calculations.
All that shows that you are unable to make detailed structural calculations for a boat, or to consult similar plans or to visit in detail similar boats in shipyards. So you're looking desperately for scantlings.
Your question is also incomplete. What is the use of the planned boat? Because I smell that will take passengers, as nobody makes a DIY personal family boat of this size. Almost surely it's out of your league, you will need the services of a NA, and you'll be obliged to respect the rules, all the rules and there are many, if you want to exploit the boat at least in first and second world countries.
You're in UK so even for yachts you have to respect a big bunch of rules. If you want to insure you need a design following the rules plus a survey by a class society like the DNV, the Veritas or other. If you want to sell it with some value over the price of crap, you have to respect strictly the regulations.
Over 24 m, all boats are submitted to at least some rules even for personal use. If you want to make charter you'll enter into the IMO rules and all the UK, European and so on regulations for commercial boats.
Class rules are not for making overkill scantlings, they are for safety after many years of analysis of disasters or simply observation of deformations and a lot of broken material.
Nobody with a working brain and common sense in this forum will give ciphers and scantlings. At fortiori without plans and a bunch of details and data. It's not greediness or wickedness it's elementary caution.
And if you want to learn only for the beauty of learning, for your personal pleasure, sorry to have to learn boat structural calculations and to read thousands of pages.
Annode.
NA, I mean NA for something bigger than a dinghy or a coastal small sailboat, is a job with lots a theoretical stuff to learn, a few thousands of pages of regulations to read and to understand plus some ability for maths. After a few years of working in a NA office is a must. Idem for a NE. That ask for studies in some university or institutions.
Your very naive questions and your answers specially to Ad Hoc or TANSL show your ignorance in this matter. Ignorance does not mean stupidity, simply it means that you have not enough knowledge in the boat design field, and even less in structural calculations.
All that shows that you are unable to make detailed structural calculations for a boat, or to consult similar plans or to visit in detail similar boats in shipyards. So you're looking desperately for scantlings.
Your question is also incomplete. What is the use of the planned boat? Because I smell that will take passengers, as nobody makes a DIY personal family boat of this size. Almost surely it's out of your league, you will need the services of a NA, and you'll be obliged to respect the rules, all the rules and there are many, if you want to exploit the boat at least in first and second world countries.
You're in UK so even for yachts you have to respect a big bunch of rules. If you want to insure you need a design following the rules plus a survey by a class society like the DNV, the Veritas or other. If you want to sell it with some value over the price of crap, you have to respect strictly the regulations.
Over 24 m, all boats are submitted to at least some rules even for personal use. If you want to make charter you'll enter into the IMO rules and all the UK, European and so on regulations for commercial boats.
Class rules are not for making overkill scantlings, they are for safety after many years of analysis of disasters or simply observation of deformations and a lot of broken material.
Nobody with a working brain and common sense in this forum will give ciphers and scantlings. At fortiori without plans and a bunch of details and data. It's not greediness or wickedness it's elementary caution.
And if you want to learn only for the beauty of learning, for your personal pleasure, sorry to have to learn boat structural calculations and to read thousands of pages.

>NA for something bigger than a dinghy or a coastal small sailboat, is a job with lots a theoretical stuff to learn,
Perhaps you missed the part about first approximation?

>after a few years of working in a NA office is a must.
Luckily the world has progressed since the days when you paid your dues in a office

>Your very naive questions and your answers specially to Ad Hoc
My questions are appropriate. Ad Hov is condescending, arrogant and rude. Every one of his "replies" wastes my time, like this reply, in dealing with the endless attempts to reframe my question such that there is one answer and one answer only... HIRE AN NA!

>If you want to sell it with some value over the price of crap,
Now you conlfate any design that does not use NA with crap. Nice. Another condescending judgement based on arrogance. This says more about you than me sir

>If you want to insure you need a design following the rules plus a survey by a class society like the DNV,
Off topic. Not relevant. lready handled

>Over 24 m, all boats are submitted to at least some rules even for personal use.
In first world countries
>You're in UK s
wrong

>you will need the services of a NA
If they are as obnoxious as this, I would rather sink thx

>if you want to exploit the boat at least in first and second world countries.
nope

>Class rules are not for making overkill scantlings, they are for safety after many years of analysis of disasters
Well its interesting that you imply anything built without an NA will sink, because one of these "propeerly designed" boats sinks EVERY FOUR DAYS

>If you want to make charter you'
nope

>Nobody with a working brain and common sense
Ooooh you are nasty

>At fortiori without plans and a bunch of details and data
COMPUTER ding ding ding

>sorry to have to learn boat structural calculations
COMPUTER

Another condescending reply that tells me nothing and wasted 10mins of my life with your negative rhetoric.
PLEASE DONT RESPOND TO ANY MORE OF MY THREADS OK :) I have better things to do than deal with luddites
 
... I have better things to do than deal with luddites

Then may I suggest you do exactly that - leave this forum and go to one where you feel your myopic understanding and attitude is best served.
Posters come to this forum for advice and assistance, not to be lectured to by some petulant poster with zero understanding of the issues involved yet attempts to claim the higher moral/technical ground out of shear ignorance and arrogance.
You wont get any NA or any other professional wishing to go near you nor your attitude..
 
Plating in steel, you have the corrosion aspect also to consider. Thinner loses out in that calculation. What was adequate, becomes inadequate more easily.
Exactly. The plate thickness is more the product of availability and impact as a practical matter. Probably 8mm or 10mm plate

>He wants metrics but dismisses Lloyd's or any other classification society that gives metrics.
You are putting words in my mouth. which part of FIRST APPROXIMATION was not clear?

Thank god for software. and FYI, NA get it wrong all the time. Probably why we have 1000+ pages from Lloyds

<OICTURE OF CONTAINER SHIP WITH BACK BROKEN UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT>
 
This thread has gone exactly the same way on his other threads.

Wants a simple one liner to satisfy a complex issue or one that requires reasoned understanding and analysis, and yet doesn't like questions of his questions etc... go figure.

AD HOC in on your ignre list... yeay ))))))

Perhaps you missed the part about NOT responding to my threads?
That was a request. You are a troll. You obviously like baiting people and your sarcasm and passive agreesive comments are offensive. I may be ignorant, but you are arrogant and dismissive. There is no such thing a s stupid question and throwing your weight around doesnt intimidate me. I ask good question, naieve perhaps, and you respond with snark. This says more about you than me.

You have succeded in turning another of my threads into an adversarial pi$$ing contest of credentials instead of providing useful information and answers like NA with quality websites seem able to do without difficulty.
 
because one of these "propeerly designed" boats sinks EVERY FOUR DAYS
Good grief, I'll delay any excursions on the fourth day ! :) Obviously there are no guarantees that any boat does not sink, but accumulated experience leads to accepted practices.
 
Just quoting facts from the Naval Architect guy on YouTube )
 
Good grief, I'll delay any excursions on the fourth day ! :)

Better still, just travel on those other non-sinking boats non-properly designed boats, since there must be so many to choose from :D
 
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