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Shipbuilding
The design, construction and maintenance of both commercial and military ships and floating vessels in shipyards or other marine facilities.
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longitudinal center of flotation
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The fore and aft location of the center of area of the ship's water plane
frame spacing
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The fore-and-aft distance, heel to heel, of adjacent transverse frames.
collision bulkhead
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The foremost main transverse watertight bulkhead. It extends from the bottom shell to the freeboard deck and is designed to keep water out of the forward hold in case of bow ...
forepeak Bulkhead
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The foremost main transverse watertight bulkhead. It extends from the bottom shell to the freeboard deck and is designed to keep water out of the forward hold in case of bow ...
panting frames
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The frames in the forward and after portions of the hull, to prevent panting action of the shell plating.
test head
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The head or height of the column of water that will give a prescribed pressure on the vertical or horizontal sides of a compartment or tank in order to test its tightness, or ...
