Underwater Structures

Preface
Acknowledgements
Author

Chapter 1 Evolution and Present-Day Types of Underwater Vehicles

Chapter 2 Materials for Submarines and Deep-Diving Submersibles

Chapter 3 Cylindrical Shells under External Pressure

Chapter 4 Interframe Strength of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells

Chapter 5 General Instability of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells

Chapter 6 Collapse of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells

Chapter 7 Truncated Cones and Major Internal Structures

Chapter 8 Finite Element Analysis of Submarine Pressure Hulls

Chapter 9 Design of Submarine Pressure Hulls

Chapter 10 Corrosion and Fatigue of Submarine Structures

Chapter 11 Structural Analysis of Deep-Diving Submersibles

Chapter 12 Structural Design of Deep-Diving Submersibles

Appendix 1: Manned Submersibles
Appendix 2: Coefficients for Elastic Buckling of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells with Initial Distortions
Appendix 3: Bessel and Kelvin Functions
Appendix 4: Design Equations for Ultimate Strength of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells and Cones
Appendix 5: DTMB Test Specimen Particulars for Spherical Shells
Appendix 6: Weight-to-Displacement Ratios (W/?) for Rescue and Search Deep-Diving Submersibles
Appendix 7: European Standard EN 1993-1-6 (Selected Extracts)
Appendix 8: Design of Spherical Shells According to ASME PHVO-1-2007
Appendix 9: Abbreviations and Acronyms

Index