Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Simpson Jr., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Raymond S. McCord, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

students to model only the middle portion of their design. This results in whatMAESTRO terms a cut model, and it provides for weights and end moments to be added. Thisapproach makes it possible for the students to create and evaluate a structural model withreasonable effort. This approach also facilitates student comparison of manually computed mid-ship section stresses with the MAESTRO computed stresses. An example of a student cut modelis shown in figure 7. Figure 7. Student Cut ModelGraduate school use of MAESTROAt MIT, students in the graduate ship design curriculum take courses in naval architecture,marine engineering and ship structures as well as hydrodynamics, acoustics, materialsengineering, and design