Naval Architecture & Ship Building License Exam Preparation (ASbE)
Prepare for the NEC Naval Architecture and Ship Building (ASbE) license exam: Hydrostatics and Stability, Ship Resistance and Propulsion, Shipbuilding Technology and Marine Engines, chapter by chapter. Free on LicenseNepal.
Naval Architecture & Ship Building syllabus (ASbE)
Basics of Engineering
- Engineering Drawing
- Workshop Technology
- Basic Electrical Engineering-I
- Basic Electrical Engineering-II
- Electronic Technology for Marine Engineers-I
- Electronic Technology for Marine Engineers-II
Basic Thermal Engineering and Heat Transfer
- Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic cycles and processes
- Internal combustion engines
- Introduction: steady and unsteady state conduction in one dimension
- Convection
- Heat exchangers
Fluid Mechanics and Hydrostatics Stability
- Fluid properties, fluid statics and kinematics
- Dimensional analysis
- Hydraulic machines
- Hull form definition of ships and ocean structures
- Initial stability
- International Maritime Organization (IMO) stability criteria
Mechanics of Structure and Theory of Machines
- Fundamental of stress analysis
- Joint and beam analyses
- Thick cylinder and pressure vessel
- Kinematics and Kinetics of motion
- Friction
- Gyroscopic couple and precision motion
Shipbuilding Materials and Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Metals as materials of construction
- Nonferrous alloys
- The Fe-Fe3C equilibrium
- Introduction to CAD
- Working in 3-D space
- Application of CAD in ship design
Marine Hydrodynamics Resistance and Propulsion of Ships
- Flow of an ideal fluid
- Uniform flow, irrotational vortex, circulation, source, sink and doublet
- Theorems of Green, Stokes, Cauchy and Blasius and their application to some hydrodynamic problems
- Phenomena resisting the motion of ships
- Advantageous effects of hull form changes- bulbous bows
- Hull propeller interaction
Shipbuilding Technology
- Development of ship welding
- Welding methods in ship technology
- Types of welding joints
- Welding sequence in shipbuilding
- Non destructive testing
- Steel surface preparation
Design of Marine Vehicles and Ship Structure
- Engineering design-philosophy
- Design spiral
- Calculation of longitudinal strength and powering
- Forces on the ship
- Dynamic effects
- Plate and shell analyses
Marine Engines and Fuels
- Performance study of internal combustion engines
- Engine components
- Marine fuel
- Gas turbines
- Turbo-charging
- Study of sources of energy
Project Planning, Design and Implementation
- Engineering drawings and its concepts
- Engineering Economics
- Project planning and scheduling
- Project management
- Engineering professional practice
- Engineering Regulatory Body