CORRELATION OF LABORATORY TESTS WITH FULL SCALE SHIP PLATE FRACTURE TESTS

The role of materials in the ship fracture problem is obvious. If such materials were not susceptible to brittle failure, the problem would cease to exist. With the objective of a final evaluation of weldable steels as to their suitability for merchant vessel construction, a wide experimental program was initiated by the Board of Investigation to Inquire into the Design and Methods of Construction of Welded Steel Merchant Vessels and continued by the Ship Structure Committee. It was the objective of the research program conducted at the Pennsylvania State College under Bureau of Ships Contract NObs-31217 to correlate the work conducted for the Board and the Ship Structure Committee. This final report attempts, therefore, the correlation of the results of the entire "material" research program as conducted between 1944 and approximately the end of 1950.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  College Park, MD  United States  20742

  Columbia University

  367 Franklin Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  11010

  Ship Structure Committee

  National Academy of Science, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20418
• Authors:
  • Klier, E P
  • GENSAMER, M
• Publication Date: 1953-1-30

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 45 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cleavage fracture; Fracture mechanics; Prototype tests
• Identifier Terms: Ship Structure Committee
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00330984
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Ship Structure Committee
• Report/Paper Numbers: SSC- 30 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: NObs-31217
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM