1st Edition
Underwater Structures The Strength of Submarines and Deep-Diving Submersibles.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author
Chapter 1 Evolution and Present-Day Types of Underwater Vehicles
Chapter 2 Materials for Submarines and Deep-Diving Submersibles
Chapter 3 Cylindrical Shells under External Pressure
Chapter 4 Interframe Strength of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells
Chapter 5 General Instability of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells
Chapter 6 Collapse of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells
Chapter 7 Truncated Cones and Major Internal Structures
Chapter 8 Finite Element Analysis of Submarine Pressure Hulls
Chapter 9 Design of Submarine Pressure Hulls
Chapter 10 Corrosion and Fatigue of Submarine Structures
Chapter 11 Structural Analysis of Deep-Diving Submersibles
Chapter 12 Structural Design of Deep-Diving Submersibles
Appendix 1: Manned Submersibles
Appendix 2: Coefficients for Elastic Buckling of Ring‑Stiffened Cylindrical Shells with Initial Distortions
Appendix 3: Bessel and Kelvin Functions
Appendix 4: Design Equations for Ultimate Strength of Ring‑Stiffened Cylindrical Shells and Cones
Appendix 5: DTMB Test Specimen Particulars for Spherical Shells
Appendix 6: Weight‑to‑Displacement Ratios (W/Δ) for Rescue and Search Deep‑Diving Submersibles
Appendix 7: European Standard EN 1993‑1‑6 (Selected Extracts)
Appendix 8: Design of Spherical Shells According to ASME PHVO‑1‑2007
Appendix 9: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Index
Biography
Dr. Piero Caridis received his education in Greece and attended the universities of Glasgow and London (UCL) where he studied naval architecture at an undergraduate and a postgraduate level. After his studies he was trained and subsequently assumed the responsibilities of a marine superintendent in a shipping company in Piraeus, Greece. He was subsequently employed by Glasgow University and carried out research which led to his PhD degree in nonlinear structural mechanics. Dr Caridis then joined the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens where he taught courses in ship strength and inspection, repair and maintenance of ship structures for thirty years.
His research interests included nonlinear behaviour of ship structures, marine accident analysis and ship repair and maintenance. He has been a member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) committees since 1991. Dr Caridis retired from NTUA in 2016 following which he taught a number of courses at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland during the period 2017-19. From 2022 onwards he has been contributing to online teaching courses on ship and submarine structures.
