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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hatch covers

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

Covers for closing the hatchway, in cargo ships usually made of wood planks in sections that can be handled by the crew. In naval ships, steel hatch covers. The wood cover is made tight against rain ...

displacement curves

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

Curves drawn to give the displacement of the vessel at varying drafts. Usually these curves are drawn to show the displacement in either salt or fresh water, or in both.

bonjean curves

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

Curves of areas of transverse sections of a ship. The curves of the moments of these areas above the base line are sometimes included.

bow lines

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

Curves representing vertical sections parallel to the central longitudinal vertical plane of the bow end of a ship. Similar curves in the aft part of a hull are called buttock lines. Also, a rope ...

fair curves

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

Curves which do not in any portions of their entire lengths show such changes of direction as to mark those portions as out of harmony in any respect with the curves as a whole or with the other ...