A follow-up to the popular Period Ship Handbook, this book is a further venture into the world of static-model sailing ships, offering additional information to both beginners and more-experienced modelmakers. The bulk of the book describes the construction of ten models, each with something different to offer. All the models described are made from kits and involve various levels of skill
Flows around bodies with knuckles are studied with an ultimate goal of predicting changes in resistance of a simplified-form ship with knuckles. As a first step, an analytical solution for the two-dimensional flow past a square is derived and compared with numerical results. The analysis is then extended to a very simple three-dimensional body with knuckles. Near the knuckle, the velocity poten…
Offers practical coverage of vibration stresses and stress--induced displacements, isolation of sensitive components, and evaluation of elastic instability, fatigue and fracture as potential failure modes that arise in mechanical designs and aerospace.
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