Accession Number:

AD0691395

Title:

MECHANICAL DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, CALIBRATION, AND FIELD DEPLOYMENT OF SURFACE WAVE FLOATS.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

COLUMBIA UNIV DOBBS FERRY N Y HUDSON LABS

Personal Author(s):

• Jordan,W. N.

Report Date:

1969-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

39.0

Abstract:

The purpose of the study in the surface wave program was to design and construct a buoyant cylindrical float which can accurately respond to wavelength components of the ocean surface down to about 5 ft 1-sec period to provide a rigid, nonmagnetic, waterproof instrument housing for the transducer instrumentation which can readily be inserted and removed from the float under field conditions to design and construct a facility to statistically calibrate each of the surface wave transducers and to participate in field trips and supervise handling and deployment of the float system.

Descriptors:

• *OCEAN WAVES
• *FLOATS
• HYDRODYNAMICS
• CONFIGURATIONS
• STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS
• MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
• CALIBRATION
• INSTRUMENTATION
• LAUNCHING
• RECOVERY
• STORAGE
• MATERIALS
• PROTECTION
• OCEANOGRAPHY

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Marine Engineering
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE