Correspondence. Armour for Ships

Constructing rules for dismantling ships.

Labor groups, environmental activists, and shipping experts have begun finalizing international guidelines that would reduce threats from toxic substances released during the ship scrapping process and would protect the health and safety of laborers who dismantle ships. In June 2001, government representatives and stakeholders in the ship dismantling industry gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to...

Rudder roll stabilization for ships

Advanced control algorithms using LQG and adaptive control techniques enable the design of an economically attractive alternative for conventional fin stabilizers and have proved to be robust during simulation experiments and full-scale trials. Abstract-This paper describes the design of an autopilot for rudder roll stabilization for ships. This autopilot uses the rudder not only for course kee...

User's Knights in Shining Armour?

The aim of this article is to address the relation between a usercentred objective and social constructionism and the possibility to refine usercentred fundamentals by enhancing the awareness of the relation between humans and the constructed environment. Through social constructionism we could enter a bit deeper into questions like; (1) reality’s subjective character especially concerning tech...

an application of equilibrium model for crude oil tanker ships insurance futures in iran

با توجه به تحریم های بین المملی علیه صنعت بیمه ایران امکان استفاده از بازارهای بین المملی بیمه ای برای نفتکش های ایرانی وجود ندارد. از طرفی از آنجایی که یکی از نوآوری های اخیر استفاده از بازارهای مالی به منظور ریسک های فاجعه آمیز می باشد. از اینرو در این پایان نامه سعی شده است با استفاده از این نوآوری ها با طراحی اوراق اختیارات راهی نو جهت بیمه گردن نفت کش های ایرانی ارائه نمود. از آنجایی که بر...

Definitions for Autonomous Merchant Ships