Ship Design and Construction Articles

TheNavalArch Interview Series: Mr. Balakrishna Menon

Mr. Balakrishna MenonEngineering Director Mooreast (Asia) Pte Ltd  TheNavalArch's Interview Series is an endeavor to get insights from the best engineering and business brains in the industry, and present them to its users for the larger...

Floating Rice Fields, the quest for solutions to combat drought floods and rising sea levels

by Lim Soon Heng, BE, PE, FSSS, FIMarEST Founder President, Society of FLOATING SOLUTIONS (Singapore) Abstract Amazing as it seems, there is a case for growing rice on floating platforms in the sea. The capital expenditure to develop this is offset by the opportunity...

CAPSIZE OF LIFTBOAT IN TRANSIT

This paper was originally presented in the 27th Offshore Symposium, February 22nd, 2022, Houston, Texas Texas Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers It has been reproduced here for the readers of TheNavalarch INTRODUCTION In 1989 a Class 105...

Designing a closed chock as per IACS rules

Introduction   Chocks are used universally for mooring and towing operations on ships. For towing operations, Chocks are used for guiding the towing rope from the winch through the outer shell of the vessel to the tug. For mooring operations, the chock is used to...