THE STRUCTURAL DRAWBACKS OF MARINE AUXILIARY BOILERS

The author argues that the proven designs of various marine boilers manufactured outside the USSR have been simplified for the sake of short-term savings without adequate preliminary scientific and technical analysis of the impact of the changes. He describes what the consequences of these technically unjustified simplifications have been in numerous installations aboard Soviet vessels. Cracks and ruptures began to form in the drums, bottoms, furnaces, tubes and other stressed parts of the boilers within a few years of installation--and in some cases, immediately.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Journal article; DTIC distribution restrictions apply
• Authors:
  • Orekhov, Y I
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • Sudostroyeniye (Soviet Shipbuilding) [USSR]
  • Issue Number: 1989, No.4

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Faults; Translations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Modifications
• Geographic Terms: Former Soviet Union
• Old TRIS Terms: Auxiliary boilers; Service experience
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00658664
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM