Development of a Technical Practice for Rudders and Diving Planes. Part I. Design Considerations,

Abstract

The purpose of the subject report is to present a technical practice for the design of rudders and diving planes. This report precedes NAVSEC Report 6136-74-272, titled 'Development of a Technical Practice for Rudders and Diving Planes, Part II, Torque Predictions' which assumes a given control surface configuration and provides a procedure for calculating the forces and moments acting on the rudder. This report addresses those design considerations not involved in the actual control surface torque calculation. In the course of this development the current NAVSEC procedure for certain aspects of control surface design was updated and documented, the current state of the art for control surface design was defined and recommendations were made for future research and development to fill gaps in the current technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 30, 1974
Accession Number
ADA071783

Entities

People

  • Richard Sheffield

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Bending Stress
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Fish
  • Frequency
  • Materials
  • Model Basins
  • Model Tests
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Ship Model Basins
  • Ships
  • Standards
  • Strain Gages
  • Thick Walls
  • Thin Walls
  • Walls

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.