ABS - 165 NOTICE 1
GUIDE FOR APPLICATION OF HIGHER-STRENGTH THICK HULL STRUCTURAL STEEL PLATES IN CONTAINER CARRIERS
| Organization: | ABS |
| Publication Date: | 1 January 2012 |
| Status: | inactive |
| Page Count: | 2 |
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General To prevent a serious failure along the block joints of the upper flange structure, appropriate design measures are to be adopted to arrest the propagation of a crack in the hatch coaming and main deck structures. One or a combination of the design measures in this Subsection may be considered. The detailed design measure applied to avoid crack propagation is to be submitted for review.
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