Locked-in Stress Mesurements along Midship Section of the Liberty Ships

Abstract

Two liberty ships, the "EVILIZ" and the "EVICYNTHIA", were elongated and reconstructed at the Innoshima Shipyard of Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.. Seizing this opportunity the authors measured the distribution of the locked-in-stresses along the cutted cross section of the vessels. This paper contains the results of measurement and brief consideration on them.