Shipbuilding & Repair

The FCAW process standing for the Flux Core Arc Welding, is the automatic/semi-automatic process of arc welding requiring constant power supply or voltage and consumable tubular electrode fed continuously. This video shows the fundamentals of the FCAW and teaches newbies some of the must-know welding techniques.

It will be practically useful and interesting for everyone willing to know how to weld better, because of the clear and easy-to-understand explanations provided by the authors. The instructions presented in the film will be found to be of great benefit for all beginner welders as well as to the professionals.

We also have some other videos devoted to the other welding processes, such as the arc welding, oxy-acetylene welding, hybrid laser arc welding, tungsten arc welding, metal inert gas welding and gas metal arc welding. We highly recommend our visitors to download all of the videos and get familiarized with their content to have a good idea of all processes since all of them are commonly used in ship construction.

The World's Biggest Carbon-Composite Catamaran Passenger Ferry was built by a Turkish company. It is being built by OZATA Ship Yard in Yalova. This video briefly shows the process of the construction of the subject vessel. Some comments from the Design Engineer of the project:"...We first draw two and three dimensional models of the ferry at designing office.

We prepare three-dimensional models of all parts of the ferry, then conduct resistance calculations and analyses of the completed models. Later, we send the analyzed products to our colleagues at the purchasing department through our server and buy necessary pieces. After that, we send technical drawings of the product or the necessary details to our colleagues at the manufacturing department and ensure their production". Production Engineer:"...

The fiber we use in ferries with the capacity of 420 passengers that we built for Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is full carbon fiber produced by using vacuum infusion technology. In this sense, we are the first shipyard in Turkey and among the limited number of shipyards in the world. The manufacturing in our composite line is as follows - the carbon fiber enters our workshop as a fabric, then leaves our shipyard as a ship. This is the process."

In this excellent and very informative video training course the recognized boatbuilding expert Arno Day is teaches students the ship's lines, taking off lines and drawing the lines. The trainees will learn the fundamentals of lines plans for boatbuilding, know how to take the lines of any type of boat and how to create a proper lines plan for the particular boat.

The problems coming up when drawing the lines plan are also demonstrated and solved in the present video. Arno clearly shows how to solve them. Note that this course will provide you with all required confidence so that you can create the lines plan drawings to be used for design and building of your own boat.

Every student and professional of the shipbuilding knows that the lines plan is the top important and fundamental aspect of ship design and construction; that is why it is highly recommended that you familiarize yourself with the content of the present video in addition to the theoretical information you will get from the relevant literature. No vessel or boat can be built without properly prepared and executed lines plan so all naval architects shall have a perfect understanding of what it is and how it shall be done in practice.

The present popular video is showing the process of new construction of the MV "Svenja" - the General Cargo ship, equipped with DPS 1 and strengthened for carrying heavy cargo. Take your time and watch this short film and you will get to know the insight of the day-to-day operations in the shipbuilding industry.

Though not going too deep into technical details of the process, this video will help interested persons to have an overall idea of the ship construction process tracking it from the very beginning of the project and leading through all stages up to the delivery.

It will be interesting even to the people far from the shipbuilding industry and maritime world in general. we recommend our visitors to download a copy of this introductory film and save it so that they can show others how the vessels are normally built at the shipyards and how complicated, time consuming and effort taking process it can be...

We offer you to watch this classic educational video. This film describes the history of the ship building of Great Britain in brief. Produced by A Merton Park Studios. The video will be of interest for the professional shipbuilders, designers and naval architects who may wish to get better understanding of how the activities they are engaged in today used to be done in the past.

Moreover, it may also interest the students who will see most of the operations they have read about in the books - how they were carried out during the pre-computer times. And, of course, this is a good watch for the people interested in history as it is devoted to the glorious history of British shipbuilding.

The present short animation was prepared with the intention to introduce the newcomers to the hazards that they may be facing when working at the shipbuilding or ship repair yards. The video will definitely be useful for newly hired employees of the ship construction and ship repair yards as well as the people who want to refresh their knowledge of the industrial safety.

Every single newcomer to the world of the shipbuilding or repair and in fact to the whole maritime world shall be aware of the golden rule saying that the safety is a matter of top importance and every effort shall be made to provide safety at the workplace. Prepared by several well respected entities, the video will let the newcomers feel the importance of the safety and get familiarized with the fundamental aspects.

Of course, the information obtained from the video shall then be further expanded at the special safety training courses, however this animation can serve as a perfect introduction giving the very basics.

This short educational documentary film was created by the US Information Service to shed some light to the one of the most glorious pages of the American ship building history. the video will be very interesting to all people engaged in ship construction, and not necessarily only to Americans since this is historically significant page.

It shows the life in the Essex, which was a village in Massachusetts - this town is world famous for its hand-built fishing boats made of wood. there are many of those wooden boats now exposed in the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. just spend some time watching this interesting historical video and you will be impressed.

Note that this is more historical popular film rather than purely technical so the content will be interesting for everyone and not only to the professionals of the shipbuilding industry. The authors of the film concentrated on the social side of this glorious story, particularly the people standing behind the fame and their joint efforts...

This video is devoted to one of the most effective of the welding processes, namely oxy-acetylene welding process. When performing an oxy-acetylene welding, a special combination of oxygen and acetylene gases is used to provide a flame of very high temperature. The present introductory film is intended to demonstrate the fundamental welding techniques and will be useful for newbie welders and professionals willing to improve their skills.

Note that there are other instructional video films available here such as the films addressing the arc welding, metal inert gas (MIG) welding, flux core arc welding (FCAW), TIG welding, gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and hybrid laser-arc welding, and we highly recommend all persons engaged in design of welding connections and practicing welders as well as the students and trainees to download them all and have as a readily available set of visual training materials supplementing their theoretical knowledge.