Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 23Royal Institution of Naval Architects., 1882 - Naval architecture List of members in each volume. |
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Admiralty Alphonso XII amount armour ballast beam Biles bilge Board of Trade boilers bolts breadth bulkheads calculations cargo carrying Catalonia cent centre of buoyancy centre of gravity Clyde coefficient consideration construction corrosion curve of stability cylinder deck deflection Denny diagram double bottom draught experiments feet floors freeboard gentlemen importance increase iron John John Scott Russell knots launch lead keels length Lloyd's Lloyd's Register load-line loading longitudinal metacentre Lord marine Martell material matter maximum means measured mile merchant metacentric height method mile trials moment of inertia Naval Architects observations obtained ordinary paper plates practice pressure question ratio reference regard remarks rivets Samuda ship shipbuilding shipowners Sir Edward Reed speed steam steamers steel Stirling Castle strains strength surplus buoyancy taken temperature Thames tide tonnage tons velocity vessel W. H. WHITE weight yachts yellow metal
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Page xv - It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the direction of the Council, to conduct the correspondence of the Institution ; to attend all meetings of the Institution, and of the Council, and of Committees ; to take minutes of the proceedings of such meetings ; to read the minutes of the preceding...
Page xv - The Auditors shall have access at all reasonable times to the Accounts of the pecuniary transactions of the Institution ; and they shall examine and sign the annual statement of the Accounts before it is submitted by the Council to the Annual General Meeting.
Page xvii - Appendix to the person proposed to be expelled, advising him to withdraw from the Institution. If that advice be followed, no entry on the minutes, nor any public discussion on the subject, shall be permitted; but if that advice be not followed, nor a satisfactory explanation given, the Council shall call a Special General Meeting of Members...
Page xiii - Institution. Secondly, the carrying out, by the collective agency of the Institution, of such experimental and other inquiries as may be deemed essential to the promotion of the science and art of shipbuilding, but are of too great magnitude for private persons to undertake individually. Thirdly, the examination of new inventions, and the investigation of those professional questions which often arise, and were left undecided before the establishment of this Institution, because no public body to...
Page xvii - Associates, and they think fit to draw up and sign a proposal requiring such expulsion, the same being delivered to the Secretary, shall be by him laid before the Council for consideration. If the Council, after due inquiry, do not find reason to concur in the proposal, no entry thereof shall be made in...
Page 58 - ... spaces for the boiler and engine rooms when situated above the uppermost deck, as well as erections for the purposes of shelter, such as turtle-backs, open at one end, and light decks supported on pillars and uninclosed, should not be measured for the purpose of their contents forming part either of the gross or register tonnage.
Page xiv - March, shall be made, under the direction of the Council, and, after having been verified and signed by the Auditors, shall be laid before the Annual General Meeting.
Page xiv - Officers, and to arrange lor the publication of the Papers read at the Meetings, or of such documents as may be calculated to advance the objects of the Institution. 25. Treasurer. — Only Bankers, or Members of Council, or persons who have been Members of Council and are still Members of the Institution, shall be eligible for Election as Treasurer. 26. Auditors. — All Members and Associates oí the Institution shall be eligible for election as Auditors.
Page xviii - Members and Associates for the purpose of deciding on the question of expulsion ; and if a majority of the persons present at such Special General Meeting, provided the number so present be not less than...
Page 115 - ... per cent, so far as the rivets are concerned for cases in which the holes are drilled. Practically, if boiler plate unpunched is credited with a strength of 20 tons per square inch, Lloyd's Rules credit the punched plates, and also the rivets either in punched or drilled holes, with a strength of 18 tons per square inch. Lloyd's Rules in new boilers made with lap joints allow a stress of 7,750 and 8,500 Ibs. per square inch with thin plates, say...