Icebreaker Spoonbow

Strong as Ice: Icebreaker Structure

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Someone once told me that icebreaking felt like crashing your car straight into a brick wall . . . and then repeating the process every minute of the day. How do we create ship hulls so strong that we crash straight through the brick wall?
Foundation 3 – Stress Pattern

Strength and Stiffness: Design of Structural Foundations

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No foundation is perfect. Each design reveals new insight and opportunities for further improvement. The art of foundation design finds an efficient arrangement to redistribute concentrated loads into the general ship structure. I review basic strategies for foundation design.
Six Ways To Break The Ship

Six Ways to Break the Ship

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Why are ship structures so labor intensive to design? Engineers need to anticipate multiple methods of failure, which makes a lot of work. The trick of efficient structural analysis focuses on recognizing which methods of failure are likely in each scenario. This article reveals six major methods of structural failure, with examples of common applications. Because it will be the failure mode you didn’t consider that ultimately leads to catastrophe.
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Meet Intercon Articulated Tug Barge Connector

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Meet the Intercon AT/B connector system. A beautiful piece of engineering used to connect tugs and barges for inland and coastal trade.