Yacht Design School – Lesson 10

Steel & Aluminum Construction

 Revised 06/01/2005 – Copyright 2005

Books To Be Read With This Lesson

Aluminium Boatbuilding, 3^rd edition by Ernest H. Sims (required)

Steel & Aluminum Scantlings Rule by MacNaughton Yacht Designs (required)

Steel Boatbuilding, Volumes 1 & 2 by Thomas Colvin (required)

Machinery’s Handbook, most recent edition by Industrial Press (required)

www.aluminum.org for aluminum information

www.efunda.com  for materials and engineering research

www.matweb.com  for materials properties research

Tools for This Lesson

No additional tools are required.

What You Will Receive With This Lesson

            Merganser 40 Construction Drawing

What You Will Learn In This Lesson

                Organization of This Lesson

                Sources of Scantlings Information

                Iterative Nature of Comparing Steel and Aluminum

                Alloys – Steel

                Alloys – Aluminum  – General Comments

                Alloys – Aluminum – Basic Groups

Alloys – Aluminum – Temper

Material Properties Table

                Weld Symbols

                General Welding Procedure

Comments on Colvin

                Comments on Sims

                Developed Surface Hulls

                Round Bilged Hulls

                Lightening Holes

                Design Practice for Ease of Maintenance and Repair in Steel Hulls

                Design Practice for Ease of Maintenance and Repair in Aluminum Hulls

                Unusual Construction Methods

                Unusual Alloys

                The Galvanic Series & Corrosion

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