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Record 1 1996-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Shipbuilding
CONT

Model experiments lend themselves to comparatively inexpensive and rapid investigations of the effect on speed and power due to changes in shape and dimensions which would be impracticable if attempted on full-sized ships.

OBS

Model basins ... are found in practically all shipbuilding countries of the world. There are at present some thirty-five model-testing stations with a total of forty-eight basins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Constructions navales
CONT

La condition première, dans les essais sur maquette, est la similitude géométrique : maquette et prototype, de tailles différentes, doivent avoir la même forme. Des considérations expérimentales limitent pourtant cette similitude géométrique.

Spanish

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