Contents Marine Technology, Volume 27, Numbers 1-6, 1990

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JANUARY 1990

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iii President's Letter

V Annual Meeting Report

xvii SNAME News

xviii Technical and Research Activities xxi Small Craft Notes

xxii Book Review xxviii Section Activities

1 Chevron's 78000-DWT Lightering Tankers

by R. A. Ternus, M. R. Buetzow, and E. D. Selle

10 A Preliminary Design Method for the Prediction of Squat in Shallow Water

by A. Mlllward

20 Ship Operator's Problems in Today's Environment

by Warren G. Leback

23 Shaft Alignment in Ship Repair: Three C a s e Studies

by Paul C. Jackson

30 Design, Manufacture, and Testing of Large Reduction Gears for Diesel Ship Propulsion S y s t e m s

by Peter Gold, K. Heinz Watzlawek, and Zbignlew J. Karaszewski

42 A Toroidal Hydrodynamic Absorber for Damping Low Frequency Motions of Fixed and Floating Offshore Platforms

by Madan Venugopal

47 Overview of Coast Guard Plan Review for High-Tech Ship Design

by James A. Watson and William M. Hayden

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iii President's Letter iv SNAME News viii Regional Report xiv Book Reviews

xvii Technical and Research Activities xxii Small Craft Notes

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65 The Promise of Advanced Naval Vehicles for NATO

by David R. Lavis, William W. Rogalski, Jr., and Kenneth B. Spaulding

94 Gentlemen, C h o o s e Your Weapons—The Race Conditions for the America's Cup

by Karl L. Kirkman

101 Corrosion Protection for Ballast Tanks of Arctic Offshore Structures

by George H. H. Kwan

104 Operation and Cost of High-Speed Craft

by Christopher Wright

114 An Analysis of Marine Total L o s s e s Worldwide and for Selected Flags

by Paul V. Ponce

117 The New International Standard for Subdivision and Damage Stability of Dry Cargo S h i p s

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iii President's Letter

iv SNAME News

xiii Technical and Research Activities

XV Small Craft Notes

xvi Section Activities

129 U.S. Commercial Ships for Tomorrow

by Alexander C. Landsburg, Eric Gabler, George Levine, Richard Sonnenschein, and Earl Simmons

153 A New Concept in Marine Desalination—The Thermal Compression Distillation Plant

by Philip Liu

162 Development of a Centrifugal Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Unit of Intermediate S c a l e

by P. M. Wild, G. W. Vicl<ers, D. A. Hopi<in, A. Moilliet

167 The Design of Moonpools for S u b s e a Operations

by A. H. Day

180 Surveying Fiberglass Y a c h t s

by Stephen A. Knox

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ix Technical and Research Activities xii Book Review

xiv Calendar of Forthcoming Events XV Section Activities

191 William H. Webb and the Packet Ship

by William duBarry Thomas

211 SWATH Structure: Navy Research and Development Applications

by Jerome P. Sikora and Alfred L. Dinsenbacher

221 Fatigue Crack Propagation in an H S L A Steel (MF-80) in Air and in Salt Water

by S. J. Gill and T. W. Crooker

225 The Relocation of the S S D C / M A T in 1987

by W. H. Jolles

237 Reliability Analysis bf Great Lakes Marine Diesels: State of the Art and Current Modeling

by Anastasslos N. Perakis and Bahadir Inözü

250 Boundary-Layer Explorations Over a Two-Dimensional Mast/Sail Geometry

by Stuart Wilkinson

257 The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Liquid Cargo Handling Simulator

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XV Technical and Research Activities XX Small Craft Notes

265 Expert System Applications to Ocean Shipping—A Status Report

by -John -J. Dumbleton

285 Design of a 40-Ft Multihull Sailboat for Offshore Racing

by James K. Antrim

300 A State-of-the-Art Review of the Reliability Approach and Methodology for the Design of Aerospace and Ocean Systems

by Pin Yu Ciiang

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Volume 27, Number 6

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325 An Appraisal of Unconventional Aftbody Configurations and Propulsion Devices

by J. Blaurocl<

337 Air Cushion Vehicles and Surface Effect Ships for Great Lakes and Great Rivers Transportation

by John L. Allison

356 The Refurbishment of Rotating Steam Turbine Blades

by J. C. Hendelman and R. J. Bazzini

361 Fiber Optics for Shipboard Sensing and Information Transfer

by M. E. Zugger and R. E. Hoffman

378 Pressure Loading of Aluminum Plating

by K. C. Brown and P. N. Joubert

387 U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding in the 1990s: The Global Context