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Mechanical Engineering
Vol. 126 / No. 1, January 2004
Rough Water: The Navy Designed a Virtual Ship - But Was It Tough Enough?
by Harry Hutchinson, Executive Editor
When the U.S. Navy officially named the San Antonio this past summer, it was honoring the city of the Alamo and introducing the first in a new class of amphibious transport dock ships. The Navy said that the San Antonio, also know as LPD-17, was its first surface ship to be completely modeled on computers before construction began.
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11.06.2003
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The Huber Motion Table
A motion table is a land-based test platform designed to simulate ship motions. In this case, testing the performance of natural gas processing equipment. This motion table is located not far from Birmingham, Alabama and was built for the Huber Company. Their client is El Paso Energy, who owns the drilling platforms through which natural gas will be drilled far out in the ocean.
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