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Warship Design and its Management: A Systems Engineering Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Warship Design and its Management A Systems Engineering Perspective

By Pramod R. Kulkarni Copyright 2026
606 Pages 2 Color & 162 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This textbook establishes the foundational engineering principles that govern warship design and describes the strategic thinking that informs the conceptualisation of new warship classes. It explains the distinctive features of the warship acquisition process and develops the reader’s understanding of the warship as an integrated, complex system. Coverage spans the full spectrum of activities... Read more

1. Introduction.  Part 1. Principles of Engineering Design. 2. New Product Development.  3. Engineering Design.  4. Systems Engineering.  5. Engineering Habits - Attributes & Skills of Design Engineer.  Part 2. Concepts of Naval Warfare.  6. Evolution of Warships. 7. Concepts of Naval Warfare.  8. Requirements Formulation.  Part 3. Phases of Warship Design.  9. Concept Exploration.  10. Concept Design. 11. Preliminary Design.  12. Functional Design.  13. Detail Design. 14. Design Modification  Part 4. Elements of Warship’s Design Spiral.  15. Hull Form Development.  16. Resistance Estimation & Propeller Design.  17. Weight Estimation and Control.  18. Stability.  19. Structures.  20. Propulsion System Integration (PSI).  21. Electrical Power System Integration.  22. Combat System Integration (CSI).  23. Ship-Aircraft Integration.  24. Seakeeping.  25. Maneuvering.  26. General Arrangement.  27. Survivability.  28. Stealth.  29. Ship Systems.  30. HVAC.  31. Human Factors Integration.  32. Cost Estimation.  Part 5. Design Analysis by Specialist Studies.  33. Ship Hydrodynamics.  34. Ship Aerodynamics.  35. EMI/EMC.  Part 6. Design Management.  36. Acquisition Management.  37. Contract Management.  38. Program Management.  39. Quality Management.  40. Steel Cutting to Commissioning.

Biography

Pramod R. Kulkarni has a career spanning thirty-six years in the Indian Navy in the Corps of Naval Constructors. During this tenure, he has executed complex New Product Development and R&D projects covering the entire product life cycle of Warships - from their Conceptualisation, Design, Development, Acquisition, Construction, Operation, Repair, and Modernization, in various roles in middle and higher management at Warship Design Bureau, Shipyards, Naval Dockyards and R&D organisations. He has headed the Forward Design Group of Warship Design Bureau and has been Warship Production Superintendent at shipyards - Garden Reach Shipyard and Mazagon Dock Ltd. In addition, he has taught and researched the subjects of ‘Warship Design’ and ‘Warship Naval Architecture’ at Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, for over ten years. He has headed the Naval Construction Wing, Applied Mechanics Department at IIT-Delhi, steering the program on Warship & Submarine Design. His qualifications include B.Tech (Mechanical) from Naval College of Engineering, PG Diploma in Naval Construction from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, M.Sc (Naval Architecture) from University College London, Ph.D (in Warship Aerodynamics) from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and M.M.S (Master of Management Studies) from College of Defence Management.

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