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References - Ocean Space Station Vers.: 16.01.09
A good place to start - some university concept design teamwork:-
[Link] Atlantis 1 Underwater research facility
[Link] Atlantis2
[Link] A one atmosphere underwater habitat design
[Link] Submarine design reports
General references
[Link] Introduction to manned underwater habitats
[Link] A short history of underwater habitats
[Link] Subsea habitat as a tourist resort
[Link] How to build an underwater hotel
[Link] Submarine work base
[Link] Experimental subsea habitat
[Link] Someone living under water
[Link] Undersea habitat "Aquarius" for the NASA
Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project.
[Link] Ocean Base One
[Link] Atlantis 1 Underwater research facility
[Link] Atlantis2
[Link] One atmosphere underwater habitat
[Link] Sea floor living spaces
[Link] Manned winged submersibles
[Link] HOV Alvin - Human Operated Vehicle
[Link] International space station
[Link] Guidelines
for the design, construction and operation of passenger submersible craft, 2001
[Link] MTS Manned underwater vehicles committee
Submarines & submersibles
[Link] Video of U-boat Worx Submersible
[Link] Submarine plans
[Link] Sub hydrodynamics
[Link] Submarine design - shape
[Link]
[Link] Picture
[Link] Design
Considerations for Engineering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
[Link] Undersea vehicles 1996
[Link] Rules for Building and Classing
Underwater Vehicles, Systems and Hyperbaric Facilities American Bureau of Shipping, 2002
ABS Guide for Classification of Manned Submersibles.
[Link] Submarine habability
[Link] Deep Quest Design
[Link] Kokes submarines
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[Link] Sub video
[Link] Astute sub cutaway
[Link] About Astute with tour of the sub
[Link] Some Astute facts
[Link] Nautilus designs
[Link] ... in 3-D
[Link] ... details
[Link]
%20Research%20Manned%20Submersibles%[Link] State of technology
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Engineering aspects 1978
[Link] Service submarines
[Link] ALVIN info
[Link] ALVIN
[Link] Graham Hawkes specs
[Link] The Fleet Type Submarine 1945 (Detailed online manuals)
[Link] Submarines of the future 2002
Underwater vehicles
[Link] Undersea vehicles
[Link] Remotely Operated Vehicles
[Link] Manned Underwater Vehicles + Link to design codes
Design
[Link] Pressure vessel failure calcs.
[Link]
2/englisch/[Link] Rules for design of submersibles, Germanischer Lloyd
[Link] Safety of tourist submersibles
[Link] Guidelines
for design, construction and operation of passenger submersible crafts
[Link] Submarine design reports
[Link] Underwater habitat design
[Link] AUV QuickDesign
[Link] Hull resistance calculations with submarine example
[Link] FREESHIP ship design program
[Link]
61829,[Link] Conceptual design of an underwater vehicle (submarine or space station)
[Link]
61828,[Link] Conceptual design of an underwater missile launcher
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[Link] Underwater seafloor drilling rig
[Link]
CfU3U0F9CLkjTYyqgOlf-xagVHkYnCy1w Hawkes Submersible Patent 2006
[Link] Energy
[Link] ALVIN Concept
[Link] ALVIN spec
[Link] Mission
[Link] Power
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[Link] Triton: Outpost in the ocean (74 MB) Habitat
[Link] US Navy Safety Certification
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Design of multilayer sandwich submersible pressure hulls
Underwater drilling rigs
[Link]
Russian proposals for nuclear powered subsea drilling platform (2008)
[Link] Subsea drilling system, Russian
[Link] Sea bed rig AS, Norway
Patents Many patents have been published, eg.:-
[Link] US patent 5098219 (1992)
Mobile submersible caisson for underwater oil-well drilling and production
[Link]
CfU3U0F9CLkjTYyqgOlf-xagVHkYnCy1w Hawkes Manned Submersible Patent (2006)
Paper
Fundamentals of Submarine Concept Design, Harry A. Jackson, SNAME Transactions, Vol
100, 1992, pp 419 - 448
Books
Manned Submersibles, Frank Busby, 1976, Online version available at:-
[Link]
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“Submersible Vehicle Systems Design”, E.E. Allmendinger, SNAME, 1990
ISBN 0-939773-06-6
“Concepts in Submarine Design”, Roy Burcher & Louis Rydill, ISBN 0-521-55926-X
Cambridge University Press 1994. E-book abridged version:-
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“Design Aspects of Underwater Intervention Systems”. 1996. By Hawley, Nuckols, Reader
and Potter. Published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 4050 Westmark Drive,
Dubuque, Iowa 52002. ISBN 0-7872-1510-4
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“Theory of Submarine Design”, Yuri N. KORMILITSIN, Oleg A. KHALIZEV, Riviera
Maritime Media, London, 2001, Saint-Petersburg State Maritime Technical University,
ISBN 978-0954144609, (ordered for MTS library 23.10.08)
WHERE "CONCEPTS IN SUBMARINE DESIGN" GOT A LITTLE THIN ON DETAILS (FOR EXAMPLE IT PROVIDES
A NUMBER OF EQUATIONS THAT ARE INCOMPLETE, OR DOESN'T EXPLAIN ALL THE VARIABLES PROPERLY),
"THEORY OF SUBMARINE DESIGN" WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE MORE COMPLETE EQUATIONS. NOT SO MUCH A
THEORETICAL TEXT AS A STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL FOR DESIGNING SUBMARINES. EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED, WTIH
MANY DESIGN EXAMPLES FROM THE REAL WORLD. TRANSLATION QUALITY IS GOOD, WITH ONLY A FEW ODDITIES
THAT DO NOT OBSCURE MEANING (E.G. " LEVER" INSTEAD OF "MOMENT ARM").
Manned underwater structures and habitats
Allmendinger [1] and Jones [32] give extensive studies of manned underwater structures
and complexes, primarily for oil production but potentially for other applications such as
oceanographic research stations. They discuss spherical and other hull shapes for underwater
units; problems manufacturing and transporting large single-unit systems could be addressed
with multi-hull systems composed of smaller units—ideal for a system that assembles a large
structure out of high-level prefabricated units. Large structures are particularly essential
considering the wide range of facilities such a habitat would require, and taking into account
the factor of necessary crew sizes for missions of more than a few days—with a crew size of
six, the endurance limit is 14 days [1]; for longer missions, crews of 25 or more are preferred,
and crews of 50 or more are still better to minimize total cost [32]. These studies also present
hardware designs for features such as emergency escape capsules, transfer modules for getting
crew in and out, and docking mechanisms.
In a separate study, Jones [33] describes considerations for where an underwater habitat might
be located, including factors like currents and temperatures, and how it might be maintained.
He also discusses issues important to underwater communication and perception, including
optical visibility and the location-dependent effects on it of turbidity, and frequency-
dependent considerations for sonic communication and sonar.
[1] E. Eugene Allmendinger. A seafloor-based system for surveying and maintaining
subsea oil-gas production complexes. Technical report, Engineering Design
and Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, August 1975.
EDAL Report No. 114.
[32] Michael E. Jones. Deepwater Oil Production and Manned Underwater Structures.
Graham & Trotman, London, 1981. ISBN: 9780860103394 ISBN-10: 0860103390
Springer, 2007-08-22, ISBN-10: 0860103390 | ISBN-13: 9780860103394
[33] Michael E. Jones. Logistic Support of a Manned Underwater Production Complex.
Graham & Trotman, London, 1983. ISBN: 9780860104506 ISBN-10: 0860104508
NOTE: Most of these books are available from the MTS library. In most cases we only have
one copy of each book, so please share them and circulate them between all the groups.