7th edition. – Elsevier, 2012. 388 p. — ISBN: 978-0-08-097239-8. Ship Construction is the market leading text for the professional shipbuilding and naval architecture sector. Acting as both a reference on the latest developments in construction techniques, safety and shipyard practice for professionals and a comprehensive text for students of naval architecture, the book covers...
Springer, 2010. 316 p. ISBN: 9048188024 English High loads with high dynamics in severe conditions can only be driven by fluid power mechanisms. Motion Control is often used as a description in various engineering disciplines to refer to a technological solution that is able to control motion, e.g. the movement of at least one part relative to another. This volume describes how...
2nd edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, 2012. XI, 122 p. — ISBN: 978-0-08-098262-5. Key Features Made up of very hard to come by information on typical ship repair labor expectations for accurate man-hour forecasting and cost estimation Produced for marine engineers and marine industry professionals to save time, aid in repair negotiation and help companies to plan more...
London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012. XII, 429 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84919-479-2 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-84919-480-8 (PDF) — (IET Control Engineering Series 77). Unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) is a collective term which can be used to describe autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, semi-submersibles, and unmanned surface craft. These days...
Norway, Trondheim: Marine Cybernetics, 2002. 555 p. — ISBN: 82-92356-00-2. The subject of this book is control of marine vessels. By marine vessels we mean ships, high-speed craft, semi-submersibles, floating rigs, submarines, remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, torpedoes and other propelled/powered structures e.g. a floating air field. Modeling of Marine...
London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. 441 p. — ISBN (10 digit) 0 86341 450 8, ISBN (13 digit) 978-0-86341-450-3. This book covers aspects of navigation guidance and control of UMVs. A wide range of vehicle types and applications are presented, together with a wide range of innovative approaches and techniques for enhancing the performance of UMVs. There are...
Spain, Madrid: Producción Gráfica Multimedia, PGM, 2009. 273 p. — ISBN: 84-609-3315-6. The aim of the work deals with the problem of develop and implement a software based tool to monitor thermal and mechanical aspects and detect load severity on journal bearings deciding the property action in Marine Diesel Engines, using advanced aspects of functional and hardware redundancy...
Springer, 2017. — 322 p. This book addresses various aspects of ship construction, from ship types and construction materials, to welding technologies and accuracy control. The contents of the book are logically organized and divided into twenty-one chapters. The book covers structural arrangement with longitudinal and transverse framing systems based on the service load, and...
Second edition. — London; New York: Routledge, 2016. — 277 p. — ISBN: 1138909246. This book covers every aspect of the dry docking of seagoing vessels. It provides a guide to industry for the different dock types and docking procedures inclusive of material management, steelwork operations and dry dock legislation. Docking a vessel successfully involves many skills and trades,...
Usborne Publishing Ltd, 1996. 32 p. There is no better way to find out all about boats than to cut away their bodywork to see what is going on inside. This book features beautifully detailed cutaway illustrations, with clear text to explain how boats work and what their various parts are designed to do. In addition, exciting photographs show all kinds of boats in action, from...
5 edition, Macmillan Co., 1920. 888 p. The world oceans are of very high importance to mankind in both direct and indirect ways. All oceans are valuable serving as reservoirs of natural resources and also as means of communications and transport. In addition to that, there is a huge number of uses of the oceans, including military. In all of the above noted aspects, the science...
14 edition. — Ian Allan Publishing, 2006. 242 p. — ISBN10: 0-7110-3141-X. This new edition has been fully revised and reflects the continuing boom in the international cruise business with many vessels either delivered or on order by many of the world's major cruise lines. The book is organised with the vessels listed according to the shipping line that owns them. The entry for...
Lecture Notes. — Trondheim, Norway, Department of Marine Technology Norwegian University of Science and echnology, 2013. — 526 c. The material presented is intended for use as Lecture notes in the course entitled TMR4240 Marine Control Systems and partly in TMR4243 Marine Control Systems II. The courses are given on graduate level for MSc degree for specialization in Marine...
Arnold, a member of the Hodder Headline Group, London, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, Toronto, 2000. — ISBN: 0-340-67650-7, ISBN: 0-470-23621-3 (Wiley). This definitive text describes the theory and design both of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) and Surface Effect Ships (SES). It begins by introducing hovercraft types and their development and application throughout the world in...
First published. — London, E.&F.N. Spon limited, 1978. — 382 p. ISBN: 978-1-4684-8243-0 (e-book) The Early development of hatch covers Cargoes and ships The influence of cargo access equipment on ships performance General requirements for access equipment Access equipment in vertical loading ships Access equipment for horizontal loading ships Ship design and selection of access...
2nd edition. — London: The Nautical Institute, 2004. — 130 p. This book has been developed to give meaning to the convention, standards and resolutions prepared by the International Maritime Organization and I wish to acknowledge the valuable work undertaken at the intergovemmentallevel to provide the essential international framework for bridge operational standards.
Carlos Guedes Soares, Y. Garbatov, S. Sutulo and T.A. Santos. — CRC Press/Balkema, 2012. — XIV, 684 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-62146-5 (Hbk+CD-ROM), ISBN: 978-0-203-10518-4 (eBook). Maritime Engineering and Technology includes the papers from the 1st International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering (MARTECH 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 May 2011). MARTECH 2011 was held...
Springer, 2015. — 334 p. This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs. These projects add valuable vision to the existing discourse, and include: Floating performance stage at the Marina Bay, Singapore Yumemai floating swing arch bridge of Osaka, Japan Floating oil storage bases in...
Taylor & Francis, 2008. 236 p. — ISBN10: 0–415–41953–0 The ocean as a frontier for colonization has a longevity that stems from mankind's long-standing attraction to the ocean. Covering 70% of the Earth, the ocean provides a means to alleviate demands on coastal land pressure; land scarcity; avail renewable energy sources and new materials; increase food production and even to...
Elsevier Science, 2003. 320 p. —, ISBN: 0080441483 Traditionally society has regulated hazardous industries by detailed references to engineering codes, standards and hardware requirements. These days a risk-based approach is adopted. Risk analysis involves identifying hazards, categorizing the risks, and providing the necessary decision support to determine the necessary...
CRC Press, 2017. — 967 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-06907-7. Progress in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures collects the contributions presented at MARSTRUCT 2017, the 6th International Conference on Marine Structures (Lisbon, Portugal, 8-10 May 2017). The MARSTRUCT series of Conferences started in Glasgow, UK in 2007, the second event of the series having taken place in...
Chicago, Frederick J. Drake & Company publishers, 1919, 250 p. The text is the outgrowth and development of a pioneer course organized early in the war by Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., in response to the demand caused by shortage of skilled labor in these industries. It was a study to know how to organize the work effectively, to select only those problems that otherwise...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000. 105 p. — ISBN: 0750648341, 9780750648349. Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd Expert ship surveyor Don Butler shares a lifetime's ship repair costing experience in this unique resource for accurate cost estimation and planning. Includes...
New York, the Rudder Publishing company, 1919, 236 p. The object of this book is to place at the disposal of builders of wood ships some much needed information about construction and equipment. Each principal part of a vessel's construction is explained, the information being arranged in such a manner that the reader can either use the book for reference purposes and quickly...
Gulf Professional Publishing, 2019. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-818723-4. This book gives engineers a much-needed reference on relevant standards and codes, along with practical case studies on how to use these standards on actual projects and plans. Packed with the critical procedures necessary for each phase of the project, the book also gives an outlook on trends of...
Marine Insight, 2012, 35 p. Not quite sure if this eBook is right for you? See the below description to determine if your level matches the content you are about to read. Introductory content is for professionals who are new to the subject or who want to learn the basics of the subject Intermediate content is for professionals who are familiar with the subject with basic...
The Standard Club, Charles Taylor & Co Limited, London, 2012. 40 p. The challenge of entering enclosed spaces safely is a subject that has Tragically been with the industry for many decades. It is not known exactly How many seafarers, shoreside workers, surveyors and stevedores have died In enclosed spaces on ships and offshore units, but it is estimated that there Are dozens...
CRC Press, 2011. — 692 p. — ISBN: 978-0415677714. In recent years significant advances have been made in the development of methods and modeling procedures for structural assessment of marine structures. Various assessment methods are incorporated in the methods used to analyze and design efficient ship structures, as well as in the methods of structural reliability to be used...
Division of Robotics, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Lund University, Sweden - 2002 The rest of the data is unknown. This paper will describe research work and results within the ROWER-2 project. The aim of the project is to design a robot system for joining large sections such as double-hull constructions.
Artech House, Boston, London, 1987, 279 p. — ISBN: 0-89006-247-1. Electromagnetics, in the special sense that we will be concerned with in this book, is the interaction of electric and magnetic fields associated with radiated energy - i.e., energy in the form of radiated electromagnetic fields. As such, the principal topic of interest here will be shipboard devices that emit or...
London: Lloyd’s Register, 2011. 49 p. This guide has been produced to assist LR Surveyors in the survey of marine chain and fittings according to LR Rules. The intention is to provide guidance on the correct interpretation of the Rules, with regard to the survey of chain during manufacture. As far as possible, the guide uses pictorial examples of imperfections in chain. It...
Marine Insight, 2013. — 100 p. Dry docking of ships is done to carry out major repairs, surveys, conversions, and modifications by taking the ship out of water. Seafarers, at some point of time in their careers, have to go through this professionally enriching yet tedious task, willingly or unwillingly. In one survey carried out by Marine Insight, more than 50% of seafarers...
Jang J., Karam P., Meritt D., Whiteside D., Project Advisor: Dr. John Fabijanic, Mechanical Engineering Department, 2015. — 87 p. The objective of this project is to design and build a disposable underwater thruster. This thruster will have an operational life of a few hours, much shorter than the industry standard operating life that spans multiple years. While maintaining...
Research article. Industrial Robot: An International Journal Volume 26 - Number 5 - 1999 - p. 377-388 Automating the welding process for the shipbuilding industry is very challenging and important, as this industry relies heavily on quality welds. Conventional robotic welding systems are seldom used because the welding tasks in shipyards are characterised by non-standardised...
MCB University Press. — Industrial Robot - Volume 24 - Number 4, 1997. p. 278-281. Describes how virtual reality simulation technology is being used and developed to support the design, for programming, of large-scale robot arc-welding cells in two of the world's largest and most modern shipyards. GRASP-VRI is a shipbuilding-specific software simulation and offline programming...
New York, the Rudder Publishing company, 1919, 54 p. This book was written for the purpose of explaining to men who are not familiar with such work as layng down the lines of a vessel in a Mould Loft of a Shipyard or Boat-building plant. It shows how the lines of a vessel are enlarged to full size and the correct shapes of all the timbers that compose the frame obtained. A...
Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety Faculty of Engineering Lund University, Sweden Lund, 2010. — 121 p. Fire safety requirements and the development in solas Introduction to the concept of risk Structural requirements and the frp composite Analyzing the needs for verification Risk analysis for verification Synoptic application of the approach Appendix A....
Bloomsbury, 2014. — 544 p. — (Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology vol. 7). — ISBN: 9781408171363. This book is a companion to Reeds Vol. 6: Basic Electrotechnology for Marine Engineers and covers aspects of theory beyond the scope of Volume 6. The book will cover the more advanced topics in electrotechnology for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine...
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects By A.R. ASQUITH - A.S.T.C. , A.M.R.I.N.A. -, A.F.A.I.M. Senior Naval Architect; Department of the Navy. presented at R.I.N.A. meeting, Sydney, October 23rd, 1968. — 31 p. The Andrew Laing lecture delivered by a good friend of the R.1.N.n. (in Australia) .. Sir Alfred Sims - in 1961 dealt with the development of Britis 1 admiralty...
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