Buckling of ship structures - Shama, Mohamed (Springer, 2013)
Scope of the book -- SI units -- Shipbuilding units -- Introduction -- Configuration and geometry of ship structure -- Bending of beams -- Hull girder loading and stresses -- Secondary loading and stresses -- Tertiary and local loading and stresses -- Compounding of stresses induced in ship structural members -- Buckling of beam Columns -- Buckling of ship plating -- Ultimate strength of ship plating -- Types and causes of ship structural failures -- Control of buckling failure of ship structure