Screen LibraryIntroduction to naval architecture
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| Published: |
Butterworth-Heinemann,
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| Publisher Address: | Kidlington, Oxford Waltham, MA |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 476 p.: ill ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780080982373 (pbk.) 0080982379 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | U66 |
| CLC: | U66 |
| Call Number: | U66/T928/5th ed. |
| Contents: |
Previous ed.: 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Definition and regulation -- Ship form calculations -- Flotation -- Stability -- Launching, docking and grounding -- Resistance -- Propulsion -- The ship environments -- Seakeeping -- Vibration, noise and shock -- Manoeuvring -- Structures -- Ship design -- Ship types -- Appendix A: Presentation of data -- Appendix B: The displacement sheet and hydrostatics -- Appendix C: Basic ship dynamics -- Appendix D: The Froude notation -- Appendix E: Questions. Written by an award-winning naval architecture author and former vice-president of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), this fifth edition provides a broad appreciation of the science and art of naval architecture, explaining the subject in physical rather than in mathematical terms. |