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Ship Terminology - Fitting
Terms used to description fitting processes and structural components used in shipfitting.
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8th Grade
05/17/2010

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Assemble
Definition
To fit two or more parts together forming a section of a larger part or complete unit.
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Bevel
Definition
The angle between the flanges of a frame or other member.
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Butt
Definition
The joint formed when two parts are plaed edge to edge.
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Buttock (BTK)
Definition
A distance from center line; an intersection of moulded surface with a vertical longitudinal plane.
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Chamfer
Definition
To cut off the sharp edge of a 90 degree corner. To trim to an acute angle.
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Countersink (CSK)
Definition
To taper a hole for a flush rivet or bolt.
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Fabricate
Definition
Necessary operations performed on plates or shapes to make them into useable pieces such as to punch out, shear, drill, bend, flange, or weld.
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Fairing
Definition
Correcting a ship's lines or structural members' assembling the parts of a ship so that they will be fair, that is, without kinks, bumps or waves; bring the rivet holes into alignment.
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Laying Out
Definition
To place on, along, or under a surface.
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Offsets
Definition
Key dimensions given on drawing; defines the ship's geometry. Normally given at each frame space.
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Rigging
Definition
Ropes, wire ropes, lashings, masts, booms, etc.; also, the handling and placing on board the ship of heavy weights and machinery.
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Tack Weld
Definition
To join pieces of metal with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart in preparation of the final welding processes.
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Welding
Definition
To unit or fuse two pieces of metal.
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Angle Iron
Definition
A piece of material formed at right angles.
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Batten
Definition
A flexible strip of wood used for fairing the lines of a hull on the floor of a mold loft.
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Bulb Flat
Definition
Structural stiffener consisting of a steel flat bar enlarged to a bulbous thickening at one end.
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Chock
Definition
A wedge of block of wood, metal, or the like for filling in a space holding an object stead.
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Collar
Definition
A flanged band or ring. A welded plate used to close a frame or beam penetration through plating.
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Dogs/L-Lugs
Definition
Holding devices which engage a moveable arm as in fastening doors, etc., aboard ship.
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Doubling Plate
Definition
A plate fitted outside or inside of another to give extra strength or stiffness.
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Eye Bolt
Definition
A bolt having a ring-shaped head.
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Face Plate
Definition
A narrow stiffening plate welded along the edge of any web frame or stiffener.
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Flange (FLG)
Definition
A part of a plate or shape at, or nearly at, right angles to the main part. The turned up edge of a shape that resists bending action.
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Girder
Definition
A fore and aft stiffening member for the deck or bottom shell.
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I-Beam (I)
Definition
A structural shape with cross section resembling the letter "I."
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Knuckle
Definition
A sharp bend in a plate or shape.
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Knuckle Plate
Definition
A plate bent to form a knuckle.
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Padeye
Definition
An eye located on deck which is used for fastening cables; on the hull, an attachment for hanging a block and fall for lifting propeller or rudder.
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Rigging
Definition
Ropes, wire ropes, lashings, masts, booms, etc.; Also, the handling and placing on board the ship of heavy weights and machinery.
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Seam
Definition
A welded plate edge connection.
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Stiffener
Definition
An angle bar, T-bar, channel used to stiffen plating of a bulkhead or other member.
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Stringer
Definition
A fore and aft member used to give longitudinal strength. Depending on location, these are called hold stringers, bilge stringers, side stringers, etc.
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Strut
Definition
Any of various structural members, as in trusses, primarily intended to resist longitudinal compression.
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Tank Top (TT)
Definition
Plating on floors producing double bottom.
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Tee Bar (Beam)
Definition
A structural shape with a cross section resembling the letter, "T."
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Template
Definition
A mold or pattern.
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Web
Definition
The vertical portion of a beam.
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Zee Bar
Definition
A rolled shape that looks like the letter "Z." It is used to join surfaces that are on a different plane.
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