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Book about structural design ?
David Geer's "The Elements of Boat Strength" is a very good book. It covers a lot of topics in pretty good detail without requiring the reader to be a mechanical engineer. It also contains the scantling rules he uses for his projects. Eric Greene Associates "Marine Composites" is also possibly useful depending on your purposes. "Principles of Yacht Design" by Larsson and Eliasson is a SNAME publication, as is Harry Benford's "Naval Architecture for Non-Naval Architects" and of course, "Introduction to Naval Architecture" by Tom Gilmer remains the entry-level textbook at the Naval Academy. One thing I found useful was a course on "statics" which I found on the Internet. I've lost the URL, much to my aggravation on several occassions now, but it was by a reputable university and it was a *great*. I wanted to do the "dynamics" course as well but as i said, i lost the URL and Googling has turned it up again. sigh. Note that my goal was to understand what the NavArchs and the MEs were doing and how they do it on my boat project. If I were building something I would certainly go with published scantlings or otherwise do things that have been approved by a real, card-carrying Engineer. I hope this helps. -mo |
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