Estimating Ship Construction and Repair
When I was serving my apprenticeship in Harland and Wolff Belfast in the 1960’s, estimating costs for shipbuilding and repair was carried out in a …
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Modern Ships Engine Equipment with Waste Heat Recovery Boiler
Marine diesel engines and engine rooms have changed a bit since I was a young engineer at sea in the 1960’s. Nowadays modern engines are designed to …
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SOP - Street Sweeping Standards and Guidelines
Street sweeping and cleaning may not look like a technical job, but it is properly carried out in an organized and planned way in the US and Great …
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The Wrecks of Scapa Flow - A Royal Naval Base for Two World Wars
Scapa Flow is a stretch of shallow water off the north coast of Scotland within the Orkney Islands. It has been used for centuries as a safe …
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What is 3D Printing?
“You see a component and you get it by pressing the ‘print’ button.” This is precisely what 3D printing is about.
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How to Make Simple Electronic Circuits Using Transistor BC547
Building virtually any electronic circuit from these small signal transistors and their complementary pairs may be feasible. This goes to show just …
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Landscape Design CAD Programs for Architects
The objective of this architect CAD software review is to provide insight about a few good architectural CAD packages out of the hugely crowded civil …
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What is Friction? Forces of Friction
Two surfaces in contact, no matter how much smooth they may appear to be, pose some frictional force across their surfaces. Here we try to present a …
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Science and Technology in Tibet
A government in exile, a parallel government running in the mainland country, natives protesting across the globe against dictating forces, and yet …
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The 5 Best and the 5 Worst Ports for Merchant Marine
The best port of the world ensures that the mariners get all the facilities that not only make their ship perfect again during a short break on a …
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