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Undersea Fiber Communication Systems

  • 3rd Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • José Chesnoy + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Undersea Fiber Communication Systems, Third edition is a reference guide covering all aspects of optical communication systems over submarine cables, including design, technology, installation, and maintenance, for both the wet and dry plant. For more than 20 years, the book has served as the bible for the submarine optical communications industry, proving useful for all people interested in submarine cables, from students, to experts, operators, and investors. Since the publication of the second edition of the book in 2015, several technical areas have rapidly evolved, and this new third edition keeps the book up to date in this fast-moving field.The key technical areas impacted over the past decade and addressed in this volume include: Transverse role of open cables, from architectures and design to upgrades and management; Evolution of coherent transponders now fully versatile with hundreds of possible modes of operation; Impacts of space division multiplexing (SDM) with the foreseen evolution towards full multi-core fiber solutions in the next decade; Deep evolution of wet plant equipment (repeaters, branching units, cables) supporting SDM and reconfiguration of networks; Environmental impacts of marine operations from laying to cable recovery, leading also to many new developments of SMART cables; Contract management for laying open cables as well as for recovery of end-of-life cables; Unrepeatered systems that have progressed to match repeatered systems at network levels.

Water-Lubricated Journal Bearings

  • 1st Edition
  • August 23, 2023
  • Wojciech Litwin
  • English
  • Paperback
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Water-Lubricated Journal Bearings: Marine Applications, Design, and Operational Problems and Solutions provides cutting-edge design solutions, common problems and methods for avoiding them, and material selection considerations for the use of water-lubricated journal bearings in marine environments. These bearings have many advantages, including the absence of the potential for oil contamination. They are also sensitive, and their production processes can be challenging, but this book outlines techniques and concepts designed to overcome these challenges, emphasizing their role in durable and reliable propulsion systems in modern, safe, and environment-friendly shipping.Propeller shafts, water-lubricated stern tube bearings, problems frequently encountered with water-lubricated propeller shaft bearings and sliding bearings alongside solutions to these problems are all covered, as are the hydrodynamic properties of water-lubricated bearings, operation at low revolution speeds, high-speed bearings, hybrid bearings, and more. Foundational concepts of tribology related to friction, lubrication, wear, and fluid/solid and solid/solid interactions in ship stern tube and water-lubricated turbine machinery are also discussed.

Marine Rudders, Hydrofoils and Control Surfaces

  • 2nd Edition
  • November 26, 2021
  • Anthony F. Molland + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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The course keeping and manoeuvring requirements for a ship are governed by international maritime law. In assessing and predicting the course keeping and manoeuvring capabilities of the ship, knowledge is required of the rudder forces necessary to keep a course or facilitate a manoeuvre. The second edition of Marine Rudders, Hydrofoils and Control Surfaces includes up-to-date data and rudder design techniques that enable the rudder forces to be estimated, together with any interactions due to the hull and propeller. The new edition describes the design and application of hydrofoils including shape adaptive design, and their applications including hydrofoil craft, yachts, and kite surfing hydrofoils. The professional will also face the need to design control surfaces for motion control, such as roll and pitch, for surface vessels and submersibles, and the book contains the necessary techniques and data to carry out these tasks.This book is for practicing naval architects and marine engineers, small craft designers, yacht designers, hydrodynamicists, undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval architecture, maritime engineering and ship science, and the broader engineering community involved in the development of marine craft that rely on the generation of ‘lift’ such as control engineers and aerodynamicists.

Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines

  • 10th Edition
  • December 1, 2020
  • Malcolm Latarche
  • English
  • Paperback
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Pounder’s Marine Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines, Tenth Edition, gives engineering cadets, marine engineers, ship operators and managers insights into currently available engines and auxiliary equipment and trends for the future. This new edition introduces new engine models that will be most commonly installed in ships over the next decade, as well as the latest legislation and pollutant emissions procedures. Since publication of the last edition in 2009, a number of emission control areas (ECAs) have been established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in which exhaust emissions are subject to even more stringent controls. In addition, there are now rules that affect new ships and their emission of CO2 measured as a product of cargo carried.

New Technologies for Emission Control in Marine Diesel Engines

  • 1st Edition
  • August 29, 2019
  • Masaaki Okubo + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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New Technologies for Emission Control in Marine Diesel Engines provides a unique overview on marine diesel engines and aftertreatment technologies that is based on the authors’ extensive experience in research and development of emission control systems, especially plasma aftertreatment systems. The book covers new and updated technologies, such as combustion improvement and after treatment, SCR, the NOx reduction method, Ox scrubber, DPF, Electrostatic precipitator, Plasma PM decomposition, Plasma NOx reduction, and the Exhaust gas recirculation method. This comprehensive resource is ideal for marine engineers, engine manufacturers and consultants dealing with the development and implementation of aftertreatment systems in marine engines.

Ship and Mobile Offshore Unit Automation

  • 1st Edition
  • August 10, 2019
  • Henryk PepliÅ„ski
  • English
  • Paperback
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Ship and Mobile Offshore Unit Automation: A Practical Guide: A Practical Guide gives engineers a much-needed reference on relevant standards and codes, along with practical case studies on how to use these standards on actual projects and plans. Packed with the critical procedures necessary for each phase of the project, the book also gives an outlook on trends of development for control and monitoring systems, including usage of artificial intelligence in software development and prospects for the use of autonomous vessels.Rounding out with a glossary and introductory chapter specific to the new marine engineer just starting, this book delivers a source of valuable information to help offshore engineers be better prepared to safely and efficiently design today’s offshore unit control systems.

Probability and Mechanics of Ship Collision and Grounding

  • 1st Edition
  • May 18, 2019
  • Shengming Zhang + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Probability and Mechanics of Ship Collision and Grounding provides simplified analytical procedures for ship collision and grounding assessments, including probabilistic methods, an estimation of the energy released during collisions, and a prediction of the extent of damage on involved structures. An additional chapter is dedicated to current finite element analysis techniques that are used for estimating structural damage during ship collisions. The book encapsulates reliable and fast analysis methods for collision and grounding assessment, presenting tactics that have been extensively validated with experimental and numerical results. In addition, all described analysis methods include realistic calculation examples to provide confidence in their use.

Geometry for Naval Architects

  • 1st Edition
  • November 19, 2018
  • Adrian Biran
  • English
  • Paperback
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Geometry for Naval Architects is the essential guide to the principles of naval geometry. Formerly fragmented throughout various sources, the topic is now presented in this comprehensive book that explains the history and specific applications of modern naval architecture mathematics and techniques, including numerous examples, applications and references to further enhance understanding. With a natural four-section organization (Traditional Methods, Differential Geometry, Computer Methods, and Applications in Naval Architecture), users will quickly progress from basic fundamentals to specific applications. Careful instruction and a wealth of practical applications spare readers the extensive searches once necessary to understand the mathematical background of naval architecture and help them understand the meanings and uses of discipline-specific computer programs.

Radar Propagation and Scattering in a Complex Maritime Environment

  • 1st Edition
  • July 3, 2018
  • Christophe Bourlier
  • English
  • Hardback
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Radar Propagation and Scattering in a Complex Maritime Environment addresses advanced numerical techniques used to significantly reduce the complexity and memory requirement for solving the linear system that results from the discretization of the boundary integral equations by the Method of Moments (MoM). Typically, the problem of the VHF wave scattering from an object above a rough sea surface in a ducting environment is investigated as is the HF radar propagation above the Earth in the presence of islands. Along with these topics, the book also covers rapid asymptotic theories, which are derived and compared with references methods based on the MoM.

Creativity and the Performing Artist

  • 1st Edition
  • December 30, 2016
  • Paula Thomson + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask synthesizes and integrates research in the field of creativity and the performing arts. Within the performing arts there are multiple specific domains of expertise, with domain-specific demands.  This book examines the psychological nature of creativity in the performing arts.  The book is organized into five sections.  Section I discusses different forms of performing arts, the domains and talents of performers, and the experience of creativity within performing artists.  Section II explores the neurobiology of physiology of creativity and flow.  Section III covers the developmental trajectory of performing artists, including early attachment, parenting, play theories, personality, motivation, and training.  Section IV examines emotional regulation and psychopathology in performing artists.  Section V closes with issues of burnout, injury, and rehabilitation in performing artists.  

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