摘要 |
A subcomponent (48) for a subassembly (10) of a module of a longitudinal midbody for a double-walled vessel hull is fabricated by welding an edge (38,42) of a rib (26,34) to an intermediate location on a face of a hull plate (14,18). A plurality of such subcomponents (48) are alternately arranged and positioned in a fixture so as to dispose a free longitudinal edge (24,32) of a rib plate (26,34) in juxtaposition with adjoining longitudinal edges (20,20,28,28) of two outer hull plates (18), or with adjoining longitudinal edges of two inner hull plates (14). At each of these sites, the three adjoining edges are welded together at (22,30), thereby fabricating subcomponents into subassemblies (10). By preference, the hull plates are flat. <IMAGE> |