<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper describes a unique engineering method intended for the preliminary designing of marine echo-location systems. The solved designing problem consists in determining geometrical parameters and selecting structural materials for a vessel of a buoyancy necessary to contain measuring instruments of a given mass, as well as its maximum gabarites and operational submersion depth. The assumed variability range of the system's parameters determines a space of permissible applicability parameters of the method. Stress level related to permissible and critical stresses was assumed to be safety criterion for the vessel. The method may be applied also to solving converse problems consisting in determining maximum permissible submersion depth for a vessel made of assumed structural materials and having given geometrical parameters. The presented description of the method is illustrated by an example of its application.</p></abstract>

This paper describes a unique engineering method intended for the preliminary designing of marine echo-location systems. The solved designing problem consists in determining geometrical parameters and selecting structural materials for a vessel of a buoyancy necessary to contain measuring instruments of a given mass, as well as its maximum gabarites and operational submersion depth. The assumed variability range of the system's parameters determines a space of permissible applicability parameters of the method. Stress level related to permissible and critical stresses was assumed to be safety criterion for the vessel. The method may be applied also to solving converse problems consisting in determining maximum permissible submersion depth for a vessel made of assumed structural materials and having given geometrical parameters. The presented description of the method is illustrated by an example of its application.

Preliminary Designing Method of External Pressure Vessels for Sea Subsurface Applications

Gdansk University of Technology, Polish Naval University

Polish Maritime Research

This paper describes a unique engineering method intended for the preliminary designing of marine echo-location systems. The solved designing problem consists...

Preliminary Designing Method of External Pressure Vessels for Sea Subsurface Applications

Publié en ligne: 22 nov. 2010

Pages: 3 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10012-010-0011-6

Mots clés
subsurface buoy mooring systems, external pressure vessels

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Preliminary Designing Method of External Pressure Vessels for Sea Subsurface Applications

Publié en ligne: 22 nov. 2010

Pages: 3 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10012-010-0011-6

Mots cléssubsurface buoy mooring systems, external pressure vessels

This content is open access.

Mots clés
subsurface buoy mooring systems, external pressure vessels