The SSC with joint partners carry out advanced ship structural research for the US maritime administration to improve naval fleet performance and in overlapping industries notably space (w/NASA). SSC reports provide peerless insight to such cutting edge research shaping regulatory regimes implemented years later into commercial shipping, enabling post-grad students and pros to grasp advancements. Twelve (12) declassified printed issues available: 

S-372 "Maintenance of Marine Structures: A state-of-the-art Summary" (142-pages) relates to structural deterioration of ships from newbuild to operation, permanent weld distortion/fatigue/cracking with various preventative measures proposed, essential to technical managers,

S-375 "Uncertainty on Models for Marine Structures" (130-pages) explores dynamic loads particularly harsh seas in naval combat operations towards optimum lightweight design written by design guru Owen Hughes (chief developer of the MAESTRO FEA software), essential for today's FEM practitioners.

S-378 "The Role of Human Error in Design, Construction, and Reliability of Marine Structures" (320-pages) Total Quality Management through rigorous assessment of human and organizational error across disciplines with appendix major accident case from the Offshore Oil industry, essential gap analysis for today's HR/ISM/ISO/TQM surveyors/managers,

S-383 "Optimum Weld-Metal Strength for High Strength Ship Structures" (126-pages) welding challenges for the exotic HSLA100 steel used on naval vessels, with insight to crack-prone HTS used on jumbo size vessels deeming "special consideration" (notably today's Valemax),

S-387 "Guideline for Evaluation of FEA and Results" (262-pages) provides checklists to  standardize the FEA process with generic and special benchmark problems on Arctic Tanker web frame analysis using ALGOR software, indispensable work instruction for today's Arctic NSR projects,

S-390 "Corrosion Control of Inter-Hull Spaces" (132-pages) investigates the most effective paint/anode protection system in double-hull Oil Tankers, theory, preparation, application, electric current measurements, complete with guide/procedures/checklists, indispensable to FROSIO paint inspectors,

S-391 "Evaluation of Marine Structures Education in North America" (126-pages) external audit of thirteen (13) US/Canada Universities/Academies, gap analysis between academia and the industry to minimize human error, essential paradigm for HR Dept. hiring skills,

S-392 "Probability-based Ship Design: Implementation of the Guidelines" (164-pages) investigates departure from empirical Rules towards DLA, with two cases studies on Battle-cruiser and Oil Tanker to compare commercial and naval sectors, also applicable to wind-turbines and aerospace. With comments by top structural authorities prof. D. Faulkner (UK MSA, Derbyshire investigation), Alaa Mansour (ABS), Owen Hughes (Proteus), and more.

S-394 "Strength Assessment of Pitted Plate Panels" (102-pages) rational support for field surveyors to judge wasted plates with a Fortran calculation program code otherwise relying on vague "good/fair/poor" visual ratings,

S-398 "Assessment of Reliability of Ship Structures" (424-pages plus separate 184-pages appendix, total 608-pages) estimates failure probabilities at given failure modes using FEM/FEA on four (4) case studies: 2-Battle cruisers/1-Containership/1-Oil Tanker, by Alaa Mansour (ABS), partly funded by NASA, awesome material,

S-399 "Strength and Stability of Stiffened Plate Components" (126-pages) takes the previous to lab setup for destructive test experiment to determine grillage collapse strength and with numerical method to predict such outcome using ABAQUS FEM/FEA software,

S-402 "Guide to Damage Tolerance Analysis of Marine Structures" (257-pages) provides after-damage insight to structural survivability in accidental (collision) or deliberate (missile hit) cases to assess/improve residual strength margins, invaluable insight,

and,

SSC/NRC "Prevention of Failure in Ship Structures" 1997 US workshop proceedings (458-pages), re-examines the USN fleet for strength after alarming serial losses of commercial Bulk Carriers in the 1990s due to sudden cracks bringing back haunting memories of WW2 Atlantic convoy losses due to weld failures. Covers the mechanism, fatigue strength, afloat repairs (vacuum box), temporary and permanent practices, and more. Essential training/presentation material.

At the price for subscriber to publisher, out of print, rare chance to get one.

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