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The design of merchant ships and cost estimating; a treatise on ship design and cost estimating,

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kari, Alexander (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, C. Lockwood and Son, 1927.
Subjects:
Shipbuilding.
Shipbuilding > Costs.
Construction navale.
Construction navale > Coût.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The design of merchant ships
  • The choice of a type of hull
  • Determination of a ship's dimentions
  • Freeboard calculations
  • The preliminary general arrangement for a cargo or a passenger ship
  • The preliminary general arrangement for an oil-carrying ship
  • General arrangements for insulated ships
  • General arrangements of special service units
  • Miscellaneous regulations
  • The spacing of water-tight bulkheads in passenger ships
  • Part II: Weight and cost estimating and prelimary calculations
  • Weight and cost estimates
  • Wood and outfit
  • Size and weight approximations for propelling machinery of the steam reciprocating type
  • Preliminary calculations
  • Part III: Powering of ships
  • Resistance and propellers.