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References - Ocean Space Station Vers.: 16.01.09

A good place to start - some university concept design teamwork:-

http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2005/a1/Home/ Atlantis 1 Underwater research facility
http://mit.edu/12.000/www/m2005/a2/finalwebsite/equipment/habitat/habtech.shtml Atlantis2

http://my.fit.edu/~swood/OCE4542Final.PDF A one atmosphere underwater habitat design

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~brown/VTShipDesign/VTShipDesign.htm Submarine design reports

General references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_habitat Introduction to manned underwater habitats
http://my.fit.edu/~swood/History_pg5.html A short history of underwater habitats
http://www.poseidonresorts.com/poseidon_main.html Subsea habitat as a tourist resort
http://www.hydrosight.com/article/poseidon_resorts.php How to build an underwater hotel
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01151424 Submarine work base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB_(United_States_Navy) Experimental subsea habitat
http://www.biosub.com.au/ Someone living under water
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NEEMO/ Undersea habitat "Aquarius" for the NASA
Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) project.
http://archives.starbulletin.com/1996/06/06/news/story1.html Ocean Base One
http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2005/a1/Home/ Atlantis 1 Underwater research facility
http://mit.edu/12.000/www/m2005/a2/finalwebsite/equipment/habitat/habtech.shtml Atlantis2
http://my.fit.edu/~swood/OCE4542Final.PDF One atmosphere underwater habitat
http://ussubs.com/resources/USSE%20H2OME%203plus.pdf Sea floor living spaces
http://www.deepflight.com/ Manned winged submersibles
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8422 HOV Alvin - Human Operated Vehicle
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html International space station
http://www.imo.org/includes/blastDataOnly.asp/data_id%3D1345/981-HHo.pdf Guidelines
for the design, construction and operation of passenger submersible craft, 2001
http://www.mtsmuv.org/index.htm MTS Manned underwater vehicles committee

Submarines & submersibles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMcP124qNI Video of U-boat Worx Submersible
http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html Submarine plans
http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/publications/3442/DSTO-TR-1622.pdf Sub hydrodynamics
http://lab.artematrix.org/papers/DSTO-TR-1920.pdf Submarine design - shape
http://www.oceansatlas.org/unatlas/about/research/other/engineeringinvestigation
s.html Picture
https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/1912/1883/1/Shah_thesis.pdf Design
Considerations for Engineering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5069#toc Undersea vehicles 1996
http://lab.artematrix.org/papers/UWVS_e-Nov06.pdf Rules for Building and Classing
Underwater Vehicles, Systems and Hyperbaric Facilities American Bureau of Shipping, 2002
ABS Guide for Classification of Manned Submersibles.
http://hnsa.org/doc/submed/chap18.htm Submarine habability
http://www.fathoms.info/category/submarines/submersibles/ Deep Quest Design
http://www.researchsubmarine.com/index.htm Kokes submarines
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-submarine.htm/printable Sub video

http://www.operations.mod.uk/special/AstuteCutawayHR.jpg Astute sub cutaway
http://production.investis.com/astute/about/ About Astute with tour of the sub
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2550 Some Astute facts
http://home.att.net/~JVNautilus/Catalog/some-designs.html Nautilus designs
http://home.att.net/~JVNautilus/Nautilus/Original/myNautilus.html ... in 3-D
http://home.att.net/~michael.crisafulli/Nautilus/Bouvet/Bouvet.html ... details
http://www.mtsmuv.org/MTS%20JOURNAL%20-
%20Research%20Manned%20Submersibles%202005.pdf State of technology
http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/e02857k25324g031/fulltext.pdf
Engineering aspects 1978
http://www.ifremer.fr/docelec/doc/1990/acte-1165.pdf Service submarines
http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=9829#9793 ALVIN info
http://www.unols.org/_projects/replace_alvin/SwRI%20Final%20Report-Body.pdf ALVIN
http://www.deepflight.com/subs/Super_Falcon_Specs.pdf Graham Hawkes specs
http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/ The Fleet Type Submarine 1945 (Detailed online manuals)
http://www.kentaurus.com/downloads/IDRSub.pdf Submarines of the future 2002

Underwater vehicles
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309053846/html/index.html Undersea vehicles
http://www.rov.org/student/education.cfm Remotely Operated Vehicles
http://www.mtsmuv.org/index.htm Manned Underwater Vehicles + Link to design codes

Design
http://rogercortesi.com/portf/pressvesfailure/presvesfail.html Pressure vessel failure calcs.
http://www.gl-group.com/infoServices/rules/pdfs/english/schiffst/teil-5/kap-
2/englisch/inhalt.pdf Rules for design of submersibles, Germanischer Lloyd
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1744&page=R1 Safety of tourist submersibles
http://www.imo.org/includes/blastDataOnly.asp/data_id%3D1345/981-HHo.pdf Guidelines
for design, construction and operation of passenger submersible crafts
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~brown/VTShipDesign/VTShipDesign.htm Submarine design reports
http://my.fit.edu/~swood/OCE4542Final.PDF Underwater habitat design
http://www.ise.bc.ca/design_Config.html AUV QuickDesign
http://www.cyberiad.net/michlet.htm Hull resistance calculations with submarine example
http://www.marin.ntnu.no/havromsteknologi/freeship.html FREESHIP ship design program
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/mde/mde/RAEPublicationsHide/filetodownload,
61829,en.pdf Conceptual design of an underwater vehicle (submarine or space station)
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/mde/mde/RAEPublicationsHide/filetodownload,
61828,en.pdf Conceptual design of an underwater missile launcher
http://www.aade.org/TechPapers/2007Pagpers/Web/Emerging_Technologies/AADE-07-
NTCE-30.pdf Underwater seafloor drilling rig
http://www.google.no/patents/pdf/Submersible.pdf?id=j197AAAAEBAJ&output=pdf&sig=A
CfU3U0F9CLkjTYyqgOlf-xagVHkYnCy1w Hawkes Submersible Patent 2006
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=748006&isnumber=16147 Energy
http://www.unols.org/_projects/replace_alvin/RHOC26Julpresentation.PDF ALVIN Concept
http://www.unols.org/_projects/replace_alvin/NADAC_ImpAlvFuncSpecs.pdf ALVIN spec
http://www.unols.org/_projects/replace_alvin/NADAC_RevFuncMissReq.pdf Mission
http://www.unols.org/_projects/replace_alvin/Power%20Budget%20Rev%2015a.xls Power
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http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/kabutton2006.pdf Triton: Outpost in the ocean (74 MB) Habitat

http://www.supsalv.org/pdf/CERTMAN.pdf US Navy Safety Certification
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V4F-48TM3X6-
1&_user=586462&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000030078&
_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=586462&md5=b16eb30a37e9bc178443a2b904620683
or
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V4F-48TM3X6-1-
45&_cdi=5757&_user=586462&_orig=search&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2003&_sk=99969
9984&view=c&wchp=dGLzVtz-
zSkzV&md5=efe46cad0a253a6205f8ad7084d329c7&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Design of multilayer sandwich submersible pressure hulls

Underwater drilling rigs

http://www.bellona.org/filearchive/fil_From_Polar_to_Nuclear_-_Bellona_report.pdf
Russian proposals for nuclear powered subsea drilling platform (2008)
http://www.cdb-lazurit.ru/indexe.php?10101 Subsea drilling system, Russian
http://www.seabedrig.com Sea bed rig AS, Norway

Patents Many patents have been published, eg.:-

http://www.wikipatents.com/5098219.html US patent 5098219 (1992)
Mobile submersible caisson for underwater oil-well drilling and production
http://www.google.no/patents/pdf/Submersible.pdf?id=j197AAAAEBAJ&output=pdf&sig=A
CfU3U0F9CLkjTYyqgOlf-xagVHkYnCy1w Hawkes Manned Submersible Patent (2006)

Paper
Fundamentals of Submarine Concept Design, Harry A. Jackson, SNAME Transactions, Vol
100, 1992, pp 419 - 448

Books
Manned Submersibles, Frank Busby, 1976, Online version available at:-
http://www.nakkabr.hpg.ig.com.br/busbys/toc.htm
http://busby.psubs.org/html/toc.html

“Submersible Vehicle Systems Design”, E.E. Allmendinger, SNAME, 1990

ISBN 0-939773-06-6

“Concepts in Submarine Design”, Roy Burcher & Louis Rydill, ISBN 0-521-55926-X
Cambridge University Press 1994. E-book abridged version:-
http://books.google.com/books?id=cN4cdjU5KTcC&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=%22manned
+underwater+vehicle+%22+design&source=bl&ots=8lEb0HIAZB&sig=XrE4Jqp60FJArH6k
d912oEIAADw&hl=no&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1

“Design Aspects of Underwater Intervention Systems”. 1996. By Hawley, Nuckols, Reader

and Potter. Published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 4050 Westmark Drive,
Dubuque, Iowa 52002. ISBN 0-7872-1510-4
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“Theory of Submarine Design”, Yuri N. KORMILITSIN, Oleg A. KHALIZEV, Riviera

Maritime Media, London, 2001, Saint-Petersburg State Maritime Technical University,
ISBN 978-0954144609, (ordered for MTS library 23.10.08)
WHERE "CONCEPTS IN SUBMARINE DESIGN" GOT A LITTLE THIN ON DETAILS (FOR EXAMPLE IT PROVIDES
A NUMBER OF EQUATIONS THAT ARE INCOMPLETE, OR DOESN'T EXPLAIN ALL THE VARIABLES PROPERLY),
"THEORY OF SUBMARINE DESIGN" WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE MORE COMPLETE EQUATIONS. NOT SO MUCH A
THEORETICAL TEXT AS A STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL FOR DESIGNING SUBMARINES. EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED, WTIH
MANY DESIGN EXAMPLES FROM THE REAL WORLD. TRANSLATION QUALITY IS GOOD, WITH ONLY A FEW ODDITIES
THAT DO NOT OBSCURE MEANING (E.G. " LEVER" INSTEAD OF "MOMENT ARM").

Manned underwater structures and habitats

Allmendinger [1] and Jones [32] give extensive studies of manned underwater structures
and complexes, primarily for oil production but potentially for other applications such as
oceanographic research stations. They discuss spherical and other hull shapes for underwater
units; problems manufacturing and transporting large single-unit systems could be addressed
with multi-hull systems composed of smaller units—ideal for a system that assembles a large
structure out of high-level prefabricated units. Large structures are particularly essential
considering the wide range of facilities such a habitat would require, and taking into account
the factor of necessary crew sizes for missions of more than a few days—with a crew size of
six, the endurance limit is 14 days [1]; for longer missions, crews of 25 or more are preferred,
and crews of 50 or more are still better to minimize total cost [32]. These studies also present
hardware designs for features such as emergency escape capsules, transfer modules for getting
crew in and out, and docking mechanisms.
In a separate study, Jones [33] describes considerations for where an underwater habitat might
be located, including factors like currents and temperatures, and how it might be maintained.
He also discusses issues important to underwater communication and perception, including
optical visibility and the location-dependent effects on it of turbidity, and frequency-
dependent considerations for sonic communication and sonar.

[1] E. Eugene Allmendinger. A seafloor-based system for surveying and maintaining

subsea oil-gas production complexes. Technical report, Engineering Design
and Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, August 1975.
EDAL Report No. 114.

[32] Michael E. Jones. Deepwater Oil Production and Manned Underwater Structures.
Graham & Trotman, London, 1981. ISBN: 9780860103394 ISBN-10: 0860103390
Springer, 2007-08-22, ISBN-10: 0860103390 | ISBN-13: 9780860103394

[33] Michael E. Jones. Logistic Support of a Manned Underwater Production Complex.

Graham & Trotman, London, 1983. ISBN: 9780860104506 ISBN-10: 0860104508

NOTE: Most of these books are available from the MTS library. In most cases we only have
one copy of each book, so please share them and circulate them between all the groups.