An edition of Treatise on iron ship building (1865)
Treatise on iron ship building
its history and progress as comprised in a series of experimental researches on the laws of strain ... including the experimental results on the resisting powers of armour plates and shot at high velocities.
By Fairbairn, William Sir
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Publish Date
1865
Publisher
Longmans, Green & Co.
Language
eng
Pages
313
Description:
Fairbairn proposed to consider a ship as a beam in 1860 at a crucial moment when iron shipbuilding was in full development. His views are therefore particularly interesting since they illustrate he analitical scope of a man who would deal with iron structures onland and at sea.
subjects: Iron and steel Ships, Naval architecture, Shipbuilding