THE USE OF ANALYTICAL METHODS IN THE DESIGN OF MARINE PROPULSION GEARING

In order to ensure the high degree of reliability essential for marine propulsion gearing the designer requires a great deal of technical and practical application information, but there is seldom the opportunity to carry out full scale testing to prove performance and assess reliability. Comparison with previous designs can assist the designer, but it is invariably necessary, in order to obtain information at the design stage, to make recourse to analytical methods of assessment with the use of specially prepared computer programs. The paper describes methods used to simulate ship performance to enable maximum applied loads to be determined and discusses methods of stress and vibration analysis for gear case structure and shafting. Because sufficient operating experience of any one propulsion system on which to assess reliability is rarely based on a normal distribution of errors with tolerance bands for materials and dimensions.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 45 Conference Papers presented at IMAS 73, London, 4-8 June 1973, organized by the Institute of Marine Engineers. This paper is available only in a set of 7 papers in Subject Group 1: "Boilers, Main Steam Turbine and Gearing" at $10.00.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Marine Engineers

  Memorial Building, 76 Mark Lane
  London EC3R 7JN,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hepper, J
  • Mudd, G C
• Publication Date: 1973

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Gears; Performance; Shafts (Machinery); Ship operations; Transmissions; Vehicle design; Vibration
• Old TRIS Terms: Gear boxes; Gear design; Shaft vibration; Ship performance
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00048451
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute of Marine Engineers
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1973 12:00AM