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Table of Contents Marine Composites impregnated with resin (prepregs) that are cured in an autoclave. Costs and part size limitations make these systems impractical for the majority of marine structures. Airframe loads also differ from those found with maritime structures. However, in recent times the two industries are coming closer together. High-end marine manufacturing is looking more to using prepregs, while aircraft manufacturers are looking to more cost-effective fabrication methods. MARINE COMPOSITES strives to be an up-to-date compendium of materials, design and building practices in the marine composites industry - a field that is constantly changing. Designers should seek out as much technical and practical information as time permits. In recent years, a very valuable source for design guidance has been specialized conferences and courses. Composites oriented conferences, such as those sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) and the Society for the Advancement of Materials Processing and Engineering (SAMPE), have over the years had a few marine industry papers presented at their annual meetings. Ship design societies, such as the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) also occasionally address composite construction issues in their conferences and publications, Indeed ASNE devoted an entire conference to the subject in the Fall of 1993 in Savannah. The Ship Structure Committee sponsored a conferenceTohne Use of Composite Materials in Load- Bearing Marine Structure, s convened September, 1990 by the National Research Council. SNAME has an active technical committee, HS-9, that is involved with composite materials. The Composites Education Association, in Melbourne, Florida hosts a biennial conference called Marine Applications of Composite Materials (MACM). The five MACM conferences to date have featured technical presentations specific to the marine composites industry. Robert J. Scott, of Gibbs & Cox, has prepared course notes for the University of Michigan based on his book ,Fiberglass Boat Design and Construction, published in 1973 by John deGraff. An update of that book is now available through SNAME. In 1990, the Ship Structure Committee published SSC-36 U0,se of Fiber Reinforced Plastics in the Marine Industry by the author of this publication. That report serves as a compendium of materials and construction practices through the late 1980s. In the United Kingdom, Elsevier Science Publishers released the late C.S. Smith’s w oDrke,sign of Marine Structures in Composite Materials. This volume provides an excellent summary of Smith’s lifelong work for the British Ministry of Defence, with a thorough treatment of hat-stiffened, composite panels. Relevant information can also be found scattered among professional journals, such as those produced by SNAME, ASNE, the Composite Fabricators Association (CFA), SAMPE and industry publications, such aCsomposites Technolo,gyComposite Design & Applicationand Reinforced Plastic.sProfessional Boatbuilde,rpublished by WoodenBoat Publications, Inc, Brooklin, ME is emerging as the focal point for technical issues related to the marine composites field. Eric Greene xPDF Image | Marine Componsites
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