Prepared for the Department of Commerce under NOAA, Grant No. 2-35252.

Provides information on the properties, availability, and cost of metals, alloys, plastics, and other nonmetallic materials used in seawater environments. Contains tabulations of all the materials covered, ranked according to selected mechanical and physical properties, corrosion resistance, and cost. Describes mechanical and physical properties, behavior in marine environments, available forms, fabricality, and typical uses of each material. Discusses advantages, restrictions, and necessary precautions involved in using each material in or around seawater.

This handbook is the definitive reference for the interdisciplinary field that is ocean engineering. It integrates the coverage of fundamental and applied material and encompasses a diverse spectrum of systems, concepts and operations in the maritime environment, as well as providing a comprehensive update on contemporary, leading-edge ocean technologies. Coverage includes an overview on the fundamentals of ocean science, ocean signals and instrumentation, coastal structures, developments in ocean energy technologies and ocean vehicles and automation. It aims at practitioners in a range of offshore industries and naval establishments as well as academic researchers and graduate students in ocean, coastal, offshore and marine engineering and naval architecture. The Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering is organized in five parts: Part A: Fundamentals, Part B: Autonomous Ocean Vehicles, Subsystems and Control, Part C: Coastal Design, Part D: Offshore Technologies, Part E: Energy Conversion