| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
Program Overview
Why this course?
This course was developed in response to the demand for design engineers who can design and assess new ships and offshore structures.
You'll be introduced to ultimate strength, fatigue and design concepts for structural components of ships and offshore floating systems. You'll also gain the knowledge of material behaviour together with factors influencing the dynamic behaviour of offshore installations.
The Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering (NAOME), a leading institution in Scotland, offers excellent teaching and research facilities, which will expand your career opportunities in naval architecture, marine, offshore oil and gas industries.
What you’ll study
The programme consists of three components:
Group project
You’ll be part of a group of three to five people in ‘consultant teams’ for 10 weeks addressing a practical engineering problem. You’ll present the report to a panel of industrial experts.
This project will enhance your team working and communication skills. It also provides valuable access to industrial contacts.
It'll give you a good understanding of all aspects of research work. In addition, the technological study must be accompanied by a survey of the relevance and applicability of the findings to the maritime industries at large.
You'll learn efficient ways to gather information, to distribute workload and to delegate amongst the group, to analyse their results and to appreciate the broader implications of the whole project. In-depth technological studies will be accompanied by increasingly important competence in managerial skills, quality assurance and a sound appreciation of the economic, political, social and environmental issues crucial to professional success.
Individual project (MSc only)
MSc students will take on an individual dissertation on a topic of their own interest. The aim of the individual project is to develop your research skills and to combine many of the aspects learned from other modules within a specific topic. This will be achieved by you carrying out work into a particular topic relating to your chosen theme and preparing a dissertation.
Facilities
We have excellent teaching facilities including:
Accreditation
This course is accredited by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, (IMarEST) on behalf of the UK Engineering Council.
Program Outline
Course content
A typical selection of modules offered on the programme are outlined below. Please note that these may be subject to change.
Semester 1
Semester 2
Offshore Structural Integrity
This module aims to provide:
The module will teach the following:
1. Introduction:
- Structural design philosophies
- In service failure modes (fracture, fatigue, creep and corrosion) (overview)
- Application of materials testing (tools of failure analysis)
- Methodologies of materials and process selection
2. Materials specification and sourcing:
- Metallic materials (Steels, Aluminium, and Metal Matrix Composite (MMC))
- Mechanical properties, manufacturing methods, deformation and materials forming, standards and Industrial applications
- Composite (Polymer Matrix Composite (PMC))
- Composite materials in offshore structure
3. Joining and welding:
- Advanced manufacturing process
- Joining and Welding in metals and composites
- Residual stress: origins and measurement of residual stress in Metallic and Composite component
4. Fracture mechanics:
- Stress analysis of cracks
- Fracture toughness
- Connecting the fracture theories, critical crack sizes (ductile vs brittle) & NDE
- Limitations of LEFM, Crack Tip Plasticity
- Mixed-mode fracture problems, KIc testing
- Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics (EPFM), J-Integral, JIc testing, Application Case Studies
- Fractography
5. Fatigue:
- Fatigue life analysis
- Stress-Life and how to develop and use S-N curve
- Cyclic stress/strain behaviour leading to hardening or softening (microstructure origins)
- Fatigue crack initiation, damage tolerant lifetime
- Corrosion fatigue
- Notch effects on fatigue, fatigue crack growth testing
- Fatigue fractography case studies
6. Corrosion:
- Corrosion prevention and mitigation
- Embrittlement mechanisms
- Environmentally assisted crack growth
7. Creep and stress rupture:
- Time-dependent mechanical behaviour
- Mechanisms of creep deformation
- Structural changes during creep
- Creep-fatigue interaction
- Creep under combined stresses
8. Nondestructive evaluation:
- Introduction to methods for determining the presence of defects and their size
- Structural health monitoring
- Inspection reliability
- Defect and remaining life assessment
On completion of the module, you're expected to be able to:
Assessment and feedback are in the form of coursework.
Risers & Mooring Lines
This module aims to:
This module covers:
On completion of the module you're expected to have
umerical methods for analysing risers and mooring lines
You'll carry out the coursework individually using the knowledge taught during lectures and computer lab sessions.
Systems Availability & Maintenance
This module aims to provide you with an insight into the qualitative and quantitative systems’ reliability techniques as well as maintenance methodologies with particular emphasis to the maritime industry. The module will give you the ability to formulate, solve, report and present a comprehensive maintenance strategy based on the application of reliability and criticality analysis and assessment tools. The module will also provide you with an insight of the day-to-day operations of ships as well as explore and present features related to ships dry-dockings, inspection, repair and maintenance scheduling, regulatory regime as well as practical case studies on the above.
This module covers:
At the end of this module you'll be:
Assessment and feedback are in the form of the submission of one coursework assignment related to reliability and criticality analysis tools and a final exam associated to the above topics.
Finite Element Analysis of Floating Structures
This module aims to provide you with a theoretical and practical knowledge of the finite element method and the skills required to analyse marine structures with ANSYS graphical user interface (GUI).
This module covers:
At the end of this module you'll be able to:
There is one exam and one coursework assignment. The exam is during the exam period of the first semester. Exam has a weight of 70% and coursework assignment has a weight of 30%.
Advanced Marine Structures
This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the response of surface ships, at both a global and a local level. Structural analysis and design will both be discussed.
This module will teach the following:
On completion of this module, you'll have gained:
Assessment and feedback are in the form of a two-hour exam. You need to gain an overall mark of 50% to pass the module.
Dynamics of Floating Offshore Installations
This module aims to provide knowledge in order to understand the factors influencing the dynamic behaviour of floating offshore structures due to environmental forces. It also aims to develop skills in order to predict the dynamic motion response of floating offshore platforms.
This module will teach the following:
Overview of basic design concepts; environmental design considerations; wave, wind and current induced motions and loads; second-order wave induced forces and responses of floating and complaint structures; soil-structure interaction.
On completion of the module the you're expected to be able to:
Assessment and feedback is in the form of an exam: problem-solving on prediction of wave excitation forces on and resulting motions of floating structures and/or the assessment of a foundation of a gravity base structure.
Reliability-based Marine Structural Design Including Plated Structures
This class aims to provide you with an insight into the structural reliability based design procedure for structural components and methods are extended to structural systems, inspection modelling and maintenance planning and reliability safety factor selection in code development.Computational Modelling of Problems in Structural Mechanics
This module aims to provide you with an understanding into Finite Element Analysis of Linear and Non-Linear problems in structural mechanics.
This module covers:
At the end of this module you'll be able to understand:
There is one class test and one assignment, and they have equal weight of 50% each.
Group Design Project
The overall aim of the module is to provide you with an enriched experience in the selection, conceptualisation and designing of a novel vessel or an offshore asset. The group projects will also include a thorough market review, concept and focused design studies and techno-economic analysis in a simulated design project environment. It will also provide you with an opportunity to present their project outputs to a panel involving academic/industry staff.
This module covers:
At the end of this module you'll be able to:
Assessment and feedback are in the form of either design report or presentation. There will be five tasks: each task may include the submission of a design report or an oral presentation followed by questions from the lecturers and the advisory groups.
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Learning & teaching
There are two teaching semesters of 11 weeks each.
Course modules are delivered in the form of formal lectures supported with tutorials and laboratory experiments.
You’re required to attend an induction prior to the start of the course.
Guest lectures
During term time, we arrange weekly seminars in which leaders and pioneers of the maritime, oil and gas and marine renewables industries visit the department and present to students. This is a great way of supplementing your education with the latest developments and gaining industry contacts for your future career.
Industrial visits are also made to a variety of companies.
Assessment
There are two types of method for module assessment. One is course work assessment only, the other is exam assessment. For examined modules the final assessment mark consists of 30-40% course work marks and 60-70% exam marks.
Student competitions
The Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering supports and promotes students in various competitions and awards, from cash bursaries for top performing students to the highest of awards from international organisations.
In recent years, our students have been triumphant in the following high profile competitions:
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Entry requirements
| Academic requirements |
Normally a first-class or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in a relevant subject. |
|---|---|
| English language requirements |
If English is not your first language, please visit our English language requirements page for full details of the requirements in place before making your application. |
Pre-Masters preparation course
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Upon successful completion, you'll be able to progress to this degree course at the University of Strathclyde.
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