This work represents the fifth volume in the Ocean Engineering Series derived from the curriculum development program undertaken at M.I.T. under the National Science Foundation Sea Grant Program.
A great deal of unavailable information is contained in this volume, particularly in the sections dealing with aluminum, titanium, and welding techniques making this, perhaps, the most important and surely the most sorely needed work in the series of ocean engineering books. This edition focuses attention on the materials necessary and uniquely fitted for vehicles and floating structures within an ocean environment. A number of particular materials, their specific properties and problems of application are covered in detail particularly for use as strength members of ocean engineering structures.
Contents
Introduction • An Overview of Structures and Materials for Ocean Engineering • Materials Used for Ocean Engineering • Steels • Aluminum and Its Alloys • Titanium and Its Alloys • Other Metals • Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics and Other Filamentous Composites • Glass and Ceramics • Concrete • Buoyancy Materials • Sealing Materials • Selected Material Problems • Fracture Toughness • Fatigue Fracture • Corrosion, Stress Corrosion Cracking and Hydrogen Embrittlement • Welding • Appendix: A Condensed Report on Underwater Cutting and Welding State of the Art