Saturday, July 12, 2008

Material Needed to Build a Ship

Here are materials that you can find in shipyard to build aship, They are:

1. Plate.
Steel Plates divide to few thickness. from 4mm, 6mm, 8mm, 9mm, 9.5mm, 10 mm, until more. even more, there is plate 150mm thickness. There is Stainless still plate also.
Generally dimension of plate is 30' x 8' or 9144mm x 2440mm.



2. Angle Bar.
It is a 90 degree bar made from steel or others. the angle bar seem like L. It use to make frame in ship or a strong bar. Usually in drawing it is called as stiffener.



3. Round bar
Usually it is 6 M in lenght.



4. Flat bar.
Usually it is 6 M in lenght. many kind of thickness.



5. H-Beam.
H-Beam is the Steel beam seem like letter 'H'.


6. Pipe
Usually is 6 M lenght



7. Bulb Plate
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This material you will always see and need to build a ship and you have to know them well if you want to work in shipyard.


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