HANDBOOK OF OCEAN AND UNDERWATER ENGINEERING

1. Section 1. Basic oceanography : / C. L. Bretschneider 1.1 World ocean 1.2 Sea-water properties 1.3 Currents and the sea floor 1.4 Chemical nature of sea-water 1.5 Salinity and its measurement 1.6 Chemical processes in the sea 1.7 Extraction of elements and compounds from sea-water 1.8 Beaches 1.9 Continental shelves 1.10 Deep-ocean floor 1.11 Sediments 1.12 Deposits of commercial interest 1.13 Eu-static and local changes of sea level 1.14 Coral reefs 1.15 General meteorological circulation. 1.16 Atmospheric and ocean stability 1.17 Winds and their effects on the oceans 1.18 Special meteorological phenomena 1.19 Waves 1.20 Currents and circulation 1.21 Tides Section 2. Basic hydrodynamics : / D. A. King 2.1 Properties of fresh and salt water 2.2 Fluid statics 2.3 Pressure forces on surfaces 2.4 Buoyancy and flotation 2.5 Flow of an ideal fluid 2.6 Flow of a viscous fluid 2.7 Steady forces 2.8 Dynamic lift 2.9 Drag of non-lifting bodies 2.10 Unsteady flow Section 3. Under water fields and instrumentation : / A. Cioccio 3.1 Under water sound 3.2 Acoustical fundamentals 3.3 Sound propagation 3.4 Ambient sound 3.5 Targets 3.6 Acoustical devices and instrumentation 3.7 Bio-marine acoustics 3.8 Principles of underwater light transmission 3.9 Illumination underwater 3.10 Light instruments 3.11 Sea-water electromagnetic parameters 3.12 Propagation of radio waves underwater 3.13 Magnetic fields underwater 3.14 Magnetic exploratory and search operations at sea 3.15 Magnetometers 3.16 Compasses 3.17 Oceanographic instrumentation 3.18 Samples 3.19 Sensors 3.20 Analysers 3.21 UNESCO tables of instrumentation Section 4. Tools , rigging , and machinery : / W. F. Fey 4.1 Underwater hand and power tools 4.2 Manipulators 4.3 Underwater cutting and welding equipment and techniques 4.4 Wire rope 4.5 Fibre line 4.6 Chain 4.7 Anchors 4.8 Rigging materials and techniques 4.9 Standard shipboard deck equipment 4.10 Ocean and underwater engineering deck equipment 4.11 Winch instrumentation 4.12 Performance requirements and operating characteristics for winches and deck machinery Section 5. Underwater cables : / W. T. Peirce 5.1 Types 5.2 Testing, handling and shipping 5.3 Industry standards 5.4 Cable vessels 5.5 Laying equipment 5.6 Handling, jointing and splicing during installation and repair 5.7 Laying 5.8 Damage 5.9 Fault and break localisation 5.10 Cable pickup, repair, and re-laying Section 6. Underwater cables : / P. D. Cohn 6.1 Manpower and manual-assist power 6.2 Batteries 6.3 Fuel cells 6.4 Radioisotopes 6.5 Nuclear-reactor power 6.6 Combustion sources 6.7 Tidal and wave power Section 7. Materials and testing : / B. F. Brown 7.1 Corrosion 7.2 Boring and fouling 7.3 Metals 7.4 Non-metallics 7.5 Buoyant materials 7.6 Protective coating 7.7 Methods of surface preparation 7.8 Testing and evaluating coatings 7.9 Applications and inspection of paint coatings 7.10 Specific coating applications and material specifications 7.11 Equipment and systems testing procedure testing procedures 7.12 Pressure testing 7.13 Ship-motion and Hull-resistance testing Section 8. Fixed structures : / R. D. Chellis 8.1 Design considerations 8.2 Design life 8.3 Tide and design wave 8.4 Wave and wind forces 8.5 Marine-site investigations 8.6 Planning and investigation methods 8.7 Marine equipment and drilling systems 8.8 Glossary of concrete technical terms 8.9 Environmental and problems of marine concrete durability 8.10 Concrete techniques and utilisation 8.11 Pile types and materials 8.12 Pile application data and installations 8.13 Interpreting foundation conditions 8.14 Marine foundation types 8.15 Bearing capacity of footings, mats, and piles 8.16 Laterals loads on piles Section 9. Vessels and floating platforms : / R. C. DeHart 9.1 External pressure structures 9.2 Design procedures 9.3 Typical designs 9.4 Ship hull forms 9.5 Propulsion systems 9.6 Steering and control 9.7 Ship types and characteristics 9.8 Design and performance calculations 9.9 Design and test of submersibles 9.10 Buoy systems and their uses 9.11 Components and design 9.12 Buoy-system motions 9.13 Deployment and recovery Section 10. Diving : / A. R. Behnke 10.1 Physics and physiology of diving 10.2 Gas laws 10.3 Pressure phenomena during diving 10.4 Surface-supplied equipment 10.5 Self-contained diving equipment 10.6 Hazardous marine life 10.7 Marine animals that bite or inflict wounds 10.8 Marine animals that sting or induced Dermatitis 10.9 Marine animals that shock 10.10 Miscellaneous marine biological hazards 10.11 Prevention and treatment of injury Section 11. Ocean operations : / C. L. Brertschneider 11.1 Ship charter parties 11.2 Towage contracts 11.3 Special considerations in ship chartering 11.4 Ship handling and seamanship 11.5 Station keeping 11.6 Selection and use of small craft for in-shore work 11.7 Ships and work platforms in heavy weather 11.8 Planning and organising marine instrumentation installations 11.9 Installation techniques 11.10 Towing equipment and rigging 11.11 Towing preparations and operations 11.12 Freeing of stranded ships 11.13 Safety in underwater operations 11.14 Shipboard safety 11.15 Small boat safety 11.16 Safety at offshore structures 11.17 Fire fighting aboard ship 11.18 Elementary surface search 11.19 Marine radio communications planning 11.20 Frequencies and frequency assignments 11.21 Maritime service radio-station rules and regulations 11.22 Wave forecasting 11.23 Weather forecasting 11.24 Tide forecasting Section 12. Wind and wave loads : / C. L. Bretschneider 12.1 Over-water wind and wind forces 12.2 Wind statistics for design considerations 12.3 Wind forces 12.4 Wave loads on fixed , rigid marine structures 12.5 Wave theories 12.6 Wave forces on fixed piles and submerged objects 12.7 Currents 12.8 Floating hulls subject to wave action 12.9 Classical wave theory 12.10 Statistical description of the sea-way 12.11 Hull excitation by wave action 12.12 Specific solutions for the excitation component 12.13 Hydrodynamic coefficients

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