Boat davit design types-boat stowage types. -typical boat davit-functional block diagram-terms and descriptions -boat hoisting -rigid bail-boat hoisting slings-boat release gear-boom, boat-boom, boat handling-davit, double arm.-davit, mechanical. -davit, overhead suspended-davit, pivoted-davit, pivoted link-davit, pivoted sheath screw-davit, radial-davit, single arm-davit, slewing arm (slad). -davit, trackway-double bank. Falls-falls tensioning device.-gravity davit-gripe. -hook, safety, on-load release-hook, raymond release. [...]

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Specimen mounting-honeycomb-air gun-ring spring-main framework and foundation-instrumentation-experimental test-result and discussion-inert specimens-explosive spesimens. Gun prematures have been studied in the US by schimmel (ref1) who devised a laboratory machine to simulate the collapse of shell-filling cavity as a result of setback forces while being fired from gun.similar machine with added refinements were also used later in [...]

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