Model experiments for VLFS

Very Large Floating Structures

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 141-164

  Ohmatsu, Shigeo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84886259269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781482265927-13     Document Type: Chapter

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