Sentence examples for protective bulkhead from inspiring English sources
The main function of the protective bulkhead of a combatant ship is to protect the cabin from being destroyed by anti-ship missiles, which usually invade the interior and explode at close-range, resulting in the combined shock wave and fragment damage on the structures.
This paper presents a design for a protective bulkhead in the form of a multi-layered composite structure, which consists of a front plate, front aerogel felt, anti-penetration layer, back aerogel felt, and back plate.
The torpedo defense system of the Lexington-class ships consisted of three to six medium steel protective bulkheads that ranged from.375-.75 inches in thickness.
The design was approved on 13 May 1914 and the improvements over the Revenge class consisted of: A consistent thickness of 1.5 inches for the protective wing bulkheads.
Several of the protective barriers of boulders and bulkheads are now covered in mountains of sand so high that they obscure much of the houses when viewed from the beach.
A protective 2.5-3 inches deck ran forward from the bulkhead to the bow.
Underwater protection consisted of a 15 mm torpedo bulkhead and a 20 mm collision bulkhead.
A double bottom extended past the armored traverse bulkheads and a thin longitudinal bulkhead provided some measure of protection against flooding.
Below the protective deck the ship was divided by 13 watertight transverse bulkheads with three more above the protective deck.
Below the protective deck the ship was divided by 13 watertight transverse bulkheads with five more above it.
