Text-book of Theoretical Naval Architecture

Name: Text-book of Theoretical Naval Architecture
Author: Edward L. Attwood

Edward L. Attwood

Derives a ship's stability, trim and strength from the same calculus of areas and moments applied to its hull form, treating naval architecture as applied geometry rather than a craft of rules of thumb.

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Written for riveted steel hulls and hand calculation, before welding, finite-element analysis, or model-basin practice as it is now done. The hydrostatics and stability principles are unchanged; the construction detail and the methods belong to their period.

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