COMMENTARY

Abstract

HULLS OF CONCRETE. When a certain M. Gueritte, a French civil engineer, delivered as long ago as 1908 a paper on ‘Ferro‐Concrete as Applied to Floating Structures’ he anticipated a great future for concrete water‐craft in many forms. The advantages he saw in the revolutionary use of this material instead of steel—resistance to the harmful action of sea‐water in particular—far outweighed the problem of greater weight. His faith in concrete was borne out by ships built in and just after two world wars, and the case histories of some of these craft demonstrate its durability as a constructional material. Only recently, however, does it seem to have achieved profitable peace‐time use. (CT Commentary, October, page 297.)

Citation

(1961), "COMMENTARY", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 8 No. 12, pp. 363-366. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb019907