"This book contains the 30 papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Marine Technology, held in Szczecin, Poland, May 28-30, 2003. Focusing on recent developments in the design, building and operation of ships, the book looks at state-of-the-art advances in this fast-moving subject area. The papers are organized under the following headings: Design and Fabrication in Shipbuilding; Shipbuilding and Design; Hydrodynamics; Navigation, Ship Operation and Multimode Transport; Inland Water Transportation; and Reliability and Safety in Marine Technology."
The proceedings from the 5th International Conference on Marine Technology reflect important advances in ship fabrication and design, hydrodynamics, safety, and navigation. Staff from Wessex Institute of Technology edit 31 chapters covering longitudinal shrinkage in butt weld joint and weld bead, transformation of non-dimensional diagrams into nomograms and its application to new propeller design systems, lift analysis of a planing boat model by wedge impact theory, and influence of wave steepness on extreme ship hull vertical wave. The volume has no subject index. It is distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)