Structural Design of Warships (Classic Reprint)

Structural Design of Warships (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Hovgaard
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781333561895

Excerpt from Structural Design of Warships The work of collecting the material and preparing it in a form that would be useful to the students presented considerable difficulty. The existing sources of information are very scattered, consisting in text books, handbooks, essays and articles, specifications, drawings, rules, and regulations. The text-books contain much valuable information, but, excepting some of the French books, they deal with so many other aspects of warship design that the discussion of structural features is necessarily brief and chiefly of a descriptive nature. It is the object here to present a more comprehensive discussion than hitherto given of this special branch of warship design, exhibiting in particular its relation to fundamental principles and conditions. On account of the vastness of the subject it has been found necessary to restrict the scope of the work to the main features of the hull proper. The descriptive part is made subservient to the discussion of principles; but where descriptions and sketches of structural parts are given, they represent, as far as possible, recent practice. Where important points of difference exist in the modes of construction in different navies they are critically compared. In the study of current practice it was often found difficult to discover the reasons why certain features were adopted and in some cases why they differed in different navies. The explanation is in general that once a certain mode of construction has been introduced in one of the leading navies and found satisfactory it becomes a standard. Gradually the reason for its adoption may be forgotten, and the construction is used as a matter of routine. It may even happen that the conditions which called forth the construction change or cease to exist, and that it survives simply because there is a vague feeling that something will go wrong if it is changed or abolished. A study of such questions cannot fail to be fruitful, because it leads naturally to suggestions 'for improvements. Moreover, in a work of this nature, it is desirable fully to state and explain the reasons for the adoption of the various structural features, inasmuch as such information will be of value, not only to the inexperienced student of the present time, but also as a matter of record for the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Elements of Yacht Design

Elements of Yacht Design
Author: Norman L. Skene
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781574091342

Norman L. Skene was one of America's foremost yacht designer. Maynard Bray is a maritime historian.

French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786

French Warships in the Age of Sail, 1626–1786
Author: Rif Winfield
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 1128
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1473893534

“The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative.” —Midwest Book Review The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV’s navy grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful in the world, at the same time establishing a reputation for the quality of its ship design that lasted until the end of sail. The eighteenth century was to see defeat and decline, revival and victory, but by 1786 the French Navy had emerged from its most successful naval war having frequently outfought or outmaneuvred the British Navy in battle, and in the process making a major contribution to American independence. This book provides significant technical and building data as well as highlights of the careers of each ship in every class. For the first time, it is possible to form a clear picture of the overall development of French warships throughout the whole of the sailing era. “A handy and quick reference to a variety of vessels . . . [A] top notch reference book.” —British Tars, 1740-1790

A Pattern Language

A Pattern Language
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1216
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0190050357

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Fast Sailing Ships

Fast Sailing Ships
Author: David Roy MacGregor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1988
Genre: Clipper ships
ISBN: 9788517774522

Classic Ships of Islam

Classic Ships of Islam
Author: Dionisius A. Agius
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004158634

Drawing upon Arabic literary sources, iconographic evidence and archaeological finds, this book examines trade, port towns, ship construction, seamanship, ship typology and their historical development in the Western Indian Ocean, focussing on the Medieval Islamic period but including earlier sources.

Big Gun Monitors

Big Gun Monitors
Author: Ian Buxton
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2008-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783469110

“Extremely well researched . . . a total account of the design, building, service, refits, and fates of the big gun monitors built for WW1 and WW2.” —Malcolm Wright, author of British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor—indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over. Nevertheless, they were important ships, which played a significant role in many Great War campaigns and drove many of the advances in long-range gunnery later applied to the battle fleet. Indeed, their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built. Monitors were largely ignored by naval historians until Ian Buxton produced the first edition of this book in 1978. Although published privately, this became an established classic and copies of the first edition are now almost unobtainable, so this new edition will be welcomed by many. It has been completely revised, extended and redesigned to a generous large format which allows material deleted from the original edition for lack of space to be restored. “This book looks in detail at the technical and economic aspects of the 42 monitors built, and is, without a doubt, the definitive work on the subject.” —Ships Monthly “Ian Buxton’s work has set the standard in celebrating these big gun ships . . . It makes an invaluable contribution to the study of naval and land operations.” —Warships International