Naval architecture

Naval architecture

The engineering science dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures.

Industry: Shipbuilding

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Naval architecture

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 collision damage.

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 collision damage.

bow

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The forward end of a ship.

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 strength.