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Principles of
Naval Architecture
Second Revision
Volume II « Resistance, Propulsion
and Vibration
Edward V. Lewis, Editor
Published by
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
601 Pavonia Avenue
Jersey City, NJ Copyright © 1988 by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
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Library of Congress Catalog Card No, 88-60829
ISBN No. 099975015
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing, November, 1988 Preface
The aim of this second revision (third edition) of the Society’s successful Principles
of Naval Architecture was to bring the subject matter up-to-date through revising
or rewriting areas of greatest recent technical advances, which meant that some
chapters would require many more changes than others. The basic objective of the
book, however, remained unchanged: to provide a timely survey of the basic prin-
ciples in the field of naval architecture for the use of both students and active
professionals, making clear that research and engineering are continuing in almost
all branches of the subject. References are to be included to available sources of
additional details and to ongoing work to be followed in the future.
The preparation of this third edition was simplified by an earlier decision to
incorporate a number of sections into the companion SNAME publication, Ship
Design and Construction, which was revised in 1980. The topics of Load Lines,
Tonnage Admeasurement and Launching seemed to be more appropriate for the
latter book, and so Chapters V, VI, and XI became IV, V and XVII respectively,
in Ship Design and Construction. This left eight chapters, instead of 11, for the
revised Principles of Naval Architecture, which has since become nine in three
volumes.
At the outset of work on the revision, the Control Committee decided that the
increasing importance of high-speed computers demanded that their use be dis-
cussed in the individual chapters instead of in a separate appendix as before. It
was also decided that throughout the book more attention should be given to the
rapidly developing advanced marine vehicles.
In regard to units of measure, it was decided that the basic policy would be to
use the International System of Units (S.I). Since this is a transition period,
conventional U.S. (or “English”) units would be given in parentheses, where prac-
tical, throughout the book. This follows the practice adopted for the Society's
companion volume, Ship Design and Construction. The U.S. Metric Conversion Act
of 1975 (P.L. 94-168) declared a national policy of increasing the use of metric
systems of measurement and established the U.S. Metric Board to coordinate
voluntary conversion to S.I. The Maritime Administration, assisted by a SNAME
ad hoc task group, developed a Metric Practice Guide to “help obtain uniform
metric practice in the marine industry,” and this guide was used here as a basic
reference, Following this guide, ship displacement in metric tons (1000 kg) rep-
resents mass rather than weight, (In this book the familiar symbol, A, is reserved
for the displacement mass). When forces are considered, the corresponding unit is
the kilonewton (kN), which applies, for example, to resistance and to displacement
weight (symbol W, where W = pAg) or to buoyancy forces. When conventional or
English units are used, displacement weight is in the familiar long ton unit (2240
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