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Metals in Boats
Vyv Cox
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Description for Metals in Boats
Hardback. Metals have been used in boats for thousands of years, as components of the vessel's construction, as load-bearing parts of the rigging and steering systems. This book explains how a wide variety of metal alloys may best be selected, formed and manufactured to give optimum performance in the typical conditions of a sailing or powered vessel. Num Pages: 128 pages, 90 colour photographs 20 diagrams. BIC Classification: WGGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 493.
Metals have been used in boats for thousands of years, as components of the vessel's construction, as load-bearing parts of the rigging and steering systems, and for a wide variety of domestic and service duties. Due to misunderstandings of the properties of the metals used, and in some cases to questionable design and manufacture, there have been spectacular and sometimes tragic failures of boats' metalworking. These continue even today. This new book explains in layman's terms how a wide variety of metal alloys may best be selected, formed and manufactured to give optimum performance in the typical ... Read more
Metals have been used in boats for thousands of years, as components of the vessel's construction, as load-bearing parts of the rigging and steering systems, and for a wide variety of domestic and service duties. Due to misunderstandings of the properties of the metals used, and in some cases to questionable design and manufacture, there have been spectacular and sometimes tragic failures of boats' metalworking. These continue even today. This new book explains in layman's terms how a wide variety of metal alloys may best be selected, formed and manufactured to give optimum performance in the typical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Crowood Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Ramsbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785002625
SKU
V9781785002625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Vyv Cox
Vyv Cox is a Chartered Engineer with specialism in metallurgy and mechanical engineering. For more than thirty years he was employed in the diagnosis of engineering failures with an oil and gas multinational. Since retirement his skills have turned to leisure craft equipment, writing about them in Yachting Monthly and other periodicals.
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