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Revision as of 23:10, 12 October 2008
Contents
Structure
Buoyancy
Ballast
- Scrap Iron
- Concrete
- Earth
Scrap iron or lead would make the best ballasts from a physical standpoint, but are expensive. Concrete and earth are much cheaper. The trade off is that you need a much greater volume of material to get the same amount of ballast.
Flooring
| Structure Designs |
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| Structure requirements · PintStead · Spar · Semi-submersible · Submersible · Boats · Collaborative Design · Space Frame · Low Cost Seastead · Conex dumbbell · Docks · |
| Materials |
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| Materials · Thin Shell Ferrocement · Concrete · Geopolymer · Basalt |
| Engineering Data |
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| Low Cost Wave Tank · Scale models · Wind Loads · Seasteading Software |
| Stability & Propulsion |
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| Stability · Propulsion · Station Keeping · Gyroscopes · Stabilizers · Pneumatically Stabilized Platforms · Connections |
