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Design and analysis of US Navy shipbuilding contract architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Contracting for US Navy ship procurement is complex due several factors such as budgetary and political concerns, sole or near sole source environments, and long lead-time construction. In the current climate of shrinking ...
Hydrodynamic analysis of the offshore floating nuclear power plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Hydrodynamic analysis of two models of the Offshore Floating Nuclear Plant [91 was conducted. The OFNP-300 and the OFNP-1100 were both exposed to computer simulated sea states in the computer program OrcaFlex: first to ...
Model testing and computational analysis of a high speed planing hull with cambered planing surface and surface piercing hydrofoils
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
As part of a 2014 thesis, the MIT Innovative Ship Laboratory (iShip) designed a high-speed planing hull form that was based on the Model Variant 5631 developed at the US Navy's David Taylor Model Basin [7] [3] [5]. This ...
Naval applications of enhanced temperature, vibration and power monitoring
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Navy ships require reliable information regarding their power and mechanical systems in order to perform their mission effectively. While today's shipboard systems are quite sophisticated, there are areas for improvement ...