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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lapped joint

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied where a connection between two pieces of material is made by overlapping the end or edge of one over the end or edge of the other and by fastening the same by bolts, rivets, or ...

A term applied where a plate or bar is offset in the way of a lapped joint. The object of the joggle is to permit a close fit of the attached member without the use of liners under alternate strakes ...

closed bevel

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied where one flange of a bar is bent to form an acute angle with the other flange.

open bevel

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied where one flange of a bar is bent to form an obtuse angle with the other flange. Frame bars in the bow and the stern of a vessel are given an open bevel to permit access for riveting ...

cant

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term signifying an inclination of an object from a perpendicular; to turn anything so that it does not stand perpendicularly or square to a given object.

winging

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term used to designate structural members, compartments, sails, and objects on a ship that are located a considerable distance off the fore-and-aft center line.