A couple more questions for the awesome folks on here. Can anyone point me towards the DNV GL rules for calculating allowable stresses? I'm...
It might have been in a previous post, but you are correct it should be in the report. They are 10x6x0.25 RHS.
Hi All, Sorry, took a few days off for the holidays. This is a university project. It's a part of my masters thesis. I just whipped up this...
OK sounds good. I'm going to check and see if our steel supplier has marine grade A mild steel. Planning on using all stainless fasteners and then...
Ya I basically mean just your standard hot rolled steel tubes. What would typically be used as the off the shelf, cheap, "workhorse grade,"...
Yup, a box beam frame is what I have designed so far. Right now I am using 1010 hot rolled steel in my FEA simulations. We will most likely use...
Question for Ad Hoc. Do most naval architects design to those standards that your showed me or do they add a factor of safety on top of those...
Hi All, The pictures that Ad Hoc posted on 12-16 at 7:04pm EST are what I mean by racking. I don't mean to say that anyone here was more...
There's those minimum Acg's quoted.
wow thanks for all the great suggestions everyone! Ad Hoc I have found a DNV manual that talks a bit about racking on semi submersible oil...
TANSL can you show me an example of what you mean by "large deck hatches on the deck of a ship"?
Hello, I am currently designing a pontoon boat which will be used to deploy a tidal turbine. Here's a picture of what I'm thinking right now....
