VERGASSOLA , G.

After a long period of crisis and uncertainty the yacht market seems to exit from the tunnel. Many shipyards are developing new interesting projects, especially for vessels over 50 m in length. The high intrinsic value of these vessels fosters technical offices to deepen the research on some critical subjects to increase competitiveness. The...

Stiffened plates are the most common structural components used in many engineering branches such as aircraft, trains, ships, offshore structures, and buildings of every kind and dimension. In the marine field, in particular, merchant and naval ship hulls can be considered to be an assembling of simple modules such as bottoms, sides, decks and...

The superyacht manufacturing industry is currently facing big challenges, mainly related to the present economic crisis. Manufacturers are then competing on the ground of better and more aesthetic external and interior designs. This trend often leads to structural strength related issues, which can compromise the static or dynamic stability of...

The present financial crisis is imposing shipbuilders to reduce costs and construction times in order to prevent orders cutback. In yacht design studios, based on improved aesthetics, this goal cannot be accomplished by simply skimping internal and/or external furnishing, but it must be achieved by reducing weights and costs of structural...