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SUBJECT INDEX 



Vibration manual, for engineers, R-189. 

 Vibration neutralizers, for ships, T-1 2 

 Vibration pickups, 5^3 

 Vibration problems, solution of by impedance 



method, R-226 

 Vibration tests, on dynamically loaded ring, 



704 

 Vibrograph, 563; T-141 



Mare Island, calibration and performance of, 



6l2 

 Puget Sound, calibration and performance of, 



693 

 Vibrometer, 563; T-1 41 

 Victory ship, model tests of, 640 

 Virtual mass, for oscillations of ships, 



method for determining, T-225 

 in higher modes of vibration of ships, 



method for determining, 762 

 Visitors, to David Taylor Model Basin, manual 



for, 569 

 Voith-Schneider cycloidal propellers, trials 



conducted, full-scale, 649 

 Voltage regulator, electronic, 502; R-51 

 Vortices, separation of, T-1 84 



WAKE, control of, T-35 



experimental definition of, T-60 

 measurement of, with ship models, T-57> 



T-72 

 of submarine periscope models, R-152 

 Wake survey, for separation of viscous and 

 wave resistance, 772 

 of torpedo, Mark 13, 583 

 War vessels, remodeling of, T-82 

 WARE. See CHARLES R. WARE. 

 WASHINGTON (BB56) , launching of, model, R-24 

 propeller machinery of, vibration of, full- 

 scale, 518 

 skeg frequency of, full-scale, R-22 

 Water, effect of air content on cavitation 

 in, 575, 770 

 heating of, by mixing with steam or hot 



water, 219 

 projectiles fired through, T-107 

 velocity of currents, in basins of Exper- 

 imental Model Basin, 304 

 Water brake, type "Foettinger , " 7" 1 1 

 Water samplers, calibration of, 655 



Water-spout scoop, for planing float, 768 

 Water tunnel, 12-inch variable -pressure , 

 propeller-testing procedure, 505 

 variable -pressure, at Netherlands Model 

 Basin, T-98 

 Waterproofing, neoprene, method of applying to 



strain gages, 627 

 Wave, ocean, instrument for measuring and 

 recording, T-1 53 

 ocean, loading of a ship in, T-11 

 production of, in model tests, T-1 36 

 Wave destruction, at reflecting wall, 296 

 Wave effect, in noise-isolation mounts, 766 

 Wave generator, R-201 



Wave measurement, in high seas, T-26, T-204 

 Wave of translation, in shallow water, 408 

 Wave profiles, delineation of, 535 

 Wave research, by stereophotogrammetry, T-204 

 Wave resistance, analysis of, ~J1 



on immersed bodies of revolution, 758; T-234 

 Wavemaker, at Hamburg Model Basin, T-1 36 

 Wax models, manufacture of at TMB, 728 

 Weather, reference scales for, R-221 

 Weber's law, in relation to model ship tests, 



T-1 94 

 Wedge gage, for measuring bending, T-211 

 Welded joints, deformation in, T-47 



tensile tests of, R-347 

 Welding, electric arc, in shipbuilding, T-1 6 

 of small-scale models, R-347 



use of Everdur brazing in, R-348 

 of thin metal sheets, method of , T-1 78, T-1 87 

 toughening process, T-150 

 Welding tests, 642; R-123, R-249 

 Welds, off-center, effect on girders, T-93 

 WEST VIRGINIA (BB48) , standardization trials 



of, full-scale, 1 40 

 White-line printing, process of, T-43 

 WICHITA (CA45), noise survey of, full-scale, 



R-15 

 Wilhelmshaven Navy Yard, launching of large 



ships at, T-1 82 

 Wind, correction for, in standardization trial 

 data, full-scale, 317 

 effect of, on CLAIRT0N, model, 334 

 on cruisers, model, 276 

 on HAMILTON (DD1 41 ) , model , 31 2 

 on SALINAS (A019), model, 345 



