SHELL EXPANSION DRAWING

Exersise-1

SDCADD-II Diploma
 INDEX

1. Aim...........................................................................................................................................Pg.No.2

2. Procedure.................................................................................................................................Pg.No.3

3. Selected Ship……………………......................................................................................................Pg.No.4

4. SED ..........................................................................................................................................Pg.No.8

5. Conclusion................................................................................................................................Pg.No.9

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1. AIM

The Assignment is to prepare the shell expansion of any ship on a drawing sheet. To avoid complications
the bow and aft part are not drawn.

Shell Expansion
Shell expansion is a two-dimensional drawing showing the arrangement of the shell plates, stiffening
members, all butts, seams, fillets welds etc. The drawing shows the various plate strakes and their
identification number. The purpose of the drawing is to assist in the plate development and subsequently
the cutting of the strakes prior to fabrication and erection.

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2. PROCEDURE

The shell is expanded in the transverse plane, where longitudinal distances are measured relative to the
centreline axis. All vertical dimensions in this drawing are taken around the girth of the vessel rather than
their being a direct vertical projection. This technique illustrates both the side and bottom plating as a
continuous whole. The girth of the main deck, tween deck, double bottom etc. is taken at each station
and the ordinates are plotted to get the profile of the shell expansion. Bulkheads are fixed vertically and
after that the strakes are decided.

Strakes of steel plating are distinguished by letters from the keel onwards, the garboard strake being ‘A’.
The plates in each strake are numbered from aft to forward. The girth of the ship decreases towards the
ends and so the width of the plate must be decreased in these parts. To save making the plates too
narrow, at the ends of the ship, a number of pairs of adjacent strakes are run in to one. This is done by
means of a stealer plate.

The strakes taken from the midship and primary members are also plotted. The maximum size of the
plate is 10m x 3 m and other checks which are done on shell expansion are given below.

 The minimum distance between two butt welds is 200mm.

 The minimum distance between any other two welds is 100mm.
 The angle between two seams at the joint should be greater than 600.
 Butts or seams at the position of stiffening member should be avoided.

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3. SELECTED SHIP & OTHER DETAILS

The selected ship is a Multipurpose General Cargo Vessel designed under the Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
rules and regulations. The ship has a deadweight of about 22000dwt. The vessel should run at a speed of
14.5 knots and its area of operation is from Mumbai– Mombasa – Toamasina – Mumbai.

Multipurpose General Cargo Carrier as the name indicates is a ship, which should be able to handle
multiple requirements such as the ability to carry general cargo (cargo in granular form, bale form, sacks,
etc), palletised cargo (containers or any other similar packing) and heavy loads in general.

LOA 163.7 m
LBP 158.4 m
B (mld) 24.2 m
D (mld) 14.75 m
T (mld) 10.2 m
Deadweight 22000 t
Speed 16 kn
Radius of
Action 6100 nm

The attached body plan has dimensions.

24.2cm x 14.75cm ( the y axis of sed has a scaling of 1:100)

& the shell expansion drawing dimensions are estimated to be.

105.6cm x 26.2cm(the x axis of sed has a scaling of 1:150)

Table of girth length :

stn 0 8.9 cm
stn 0.5 10 cm
stn 1 14.67 cm
stn 1.5 17.9 cm
stn 2 18.5 cm

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 stn 3 19.83 cm
stn 4 21.06 cm
stn 5 22.7 cm
stn 6 24.15 cm
stn 7 25 cm
stn 8 25.75 cm
stn 9 0 cm
stn 10 26.2 cm
stn 11 0 cm
stn 12 26.11 cm
stn 13 25.8 cm
stn 14 25.47 cm
stn 15 24.5 cm
stn 16 23.43 cm
stn 17 21.36 cm
stn 18 19.07 cm
stn 18.5 17.41 cm
stn 19 16.7 cm
stn 19.5 16.25 cm
stn 20 15.8 cm

The standard plate dimensions taken are :

Keel Strake - 1m x 6m

Garboard Strake – 2m x 6m

Bilge Strake – 2.5m x 6m

Sheer Strake – 2.2 x 6m

Other plates are cut keeping in mind the need for minimizing the cutting of plates and the need for
continuity or continuous seam length.

Table showing bilge length for drawing the bilge strake :

Aft

stn 10 11.87 cm
stn 9 - cm

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 stn 8 11.5 cm
stn 7 11.3 cm
stn 6 10.68 cm
stn 5 9.825 cm
stn 4 9.136 cm
stn 3 8.6935 cm
stn 2 - cm
stn 1.5 - cm
stn 1 - cm
stn 0.5 - cm
stn 0 - cm

Fore

stn 11 - cm
stn 12 11.79 cm
stn 13 11.5536 cm
stn 14 11.384 cm
stn 15 10.767 cm
stn 16 10.4132 cm
stn 17 9.4184 cm
stn 18 8.797 cm
stn 18.5 8.233 cm
stn 19 - cm
stn 19.5 - cm
stn 20 - cm
cm

General Arrangement plan & Body Plan :

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4. SED

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5. CONCLUSION

Body plan was obtained plotting spline curves in Autocad. Necessary scaling was done. The outline for
the ship girthwise was drawn and thus finally the shell expansion was drawn.

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