SHIP FLEXURE MEASUREMENTS

An electrooptic alignment system which is insensitive to angular displacements has been built. It consists of an intensity-modulated laser, a lens and a Schottky barrier position-sensing photodiode. Another afocal lens system with unit magnification has been developed to monitor displacement and tilt of an object moving in a straight line; however, it either measures displacement and is unaffected by tilt or measures tilt and is unaffected by displacement. Therefore, two assemblies need to be mounted side by side in a common block to measure tilt and displacement simultaneously. This report describes a ship flexure monitoring system which has been developed to measure four degrees of freedom simultaneously. This system does not measure roll, the fifth degree of freedom; however, by using a polarizer of half-wave plate and detecting polarization changes, roll measurements can be incorporated.

• Corporate Authors:

  Naval Weapons Center

  China Lake, CA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Hutcheson, L D
• Publication Date: 1975-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 16 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Flexural strength; Hulls; Instrumentation; Lasers; Measuring instruments; Ship motion; Stiffness
• Uncontrolled Terms: Flexural stiffness
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull instrumentation; Instrumentation technology
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00195768
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NWC-TM-2574 Tech Memo, GIDEP-E094-0768
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1979 12:00AM