A User's View of the SPADES HULLOAD Program for Specifying Ship Structure

Abstract

Livingston Shipbuilding is a medium to small shipbuilding complex that builds both conventional marine vessels and offshore drilling equipment. We have been involved with Numerical Control Lofting for over three (3) years and have built three (3) jack-up drilling rigs, two (2) drill ships, a Great Lakes products carrier and processed several industrial products, contracts with the N/C controlled burning machine. The Engineering Hull Section is responsible for the loading of the data base with SPADES HULLAD program. This program defines the locations of decks, sight edges, longitudinal bulkheads and all structures that Comprise a marine vessel. This program is easy to implement and the Hull Section draftsmen are used as programmers for establishing this important part of the ship's data base.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA445046

Entities

People

  • E. E. Mayer

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bulkheads
  • Computer Programming
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Marine Systems (Military)
  • Offshore Drilling
  • Personnel Management
  • Shipbuilding
  • Training
  • Transverse
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security