{"title":"ENABLING TECHNOLOGY AND THE NAVAL ARCHITECT 1860-2010","authors":"I. Buxton","doi":"10.5750/ijme.v152ia2.826","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Enabling technology permits the naval architect to do more with fewer resources, increasing output, decreasing cost and improving productivity, with the resulting benefits being widely distributed in a worldwide economy. For example a bulk carrier’s energy consumption per ton-mile today is less than 3% of what it was a century and half ago – due to more efficient machinery, larger hulls with lower resistance per ton and improved propulsive efficiency, yet with higher speed and shorter port times.","PeriodicalId":50313,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Maritime Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5750/ijme.v152ia2.826","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MARINE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Enabling technology permits the naval architect to do more with fewer resources, increasing output, decreasing cost and improving productivity, with the resulting benefits being widely distributed in a worldwide economy. For example a bulk carrier’s energy consumption per ton-mile today is less than 3% of what it was a century and half ago – due to more efficient machinery, larger hulls with lower resistance per ton and improved propulsive efficiency, yet with higher speed and shorter port times.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal of Maritime Engineering (IJME) provides a forum for the reporting and discussion on technical and scientific issues associated with the design and construction of commercial marine vessels . Contributions in the form of papers and notes, together with discussion on published papers are welcomed.