Stress measurements on a propeller blade of a 42,000 ton tanker on full scale¹²

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wereldsma, R.

Affiliations: Netherlands Ship Model Basin, Wageningen, Holland

Note: [1] Paper read before the “Association Technique Maritime et Aéronautique”, Paris 1963.

Note: [2] Publication of the Netherlands Research Centre T.N.O. for Shipbuilding and Navigation.

Abstract: The pattern of the material stresses in the root of a blade of a propeller operating behind a single screw tanker has been determined by means of strain gauges. The measured stresses agree with those calculated according to different existing methods. In the root of the blade a fourfold safety margin against fatigue exists.

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-1964-1111301

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 11, no. 113, pp. 3-16, 1964