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“Force Majeure”, Extension of Time Clauses and the Prevention Principle in Shipbuilding Contracts
Seatific Engineering Research Journal, 2023 Under English law, it is entirely up to the contract parties to agree on “force majeure” events that are beyond the builder’s control. Under an old English law principle known as the “prevention principle”, no party to a contract should be allowed to benefit from its own failure to perform.
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An enterprise-level naval shipbuilding plan [PDF]
Overview: This paper reviews the past performance of Australian naval shipbuilding, describes the pros and cons of a rolling production model, and unpicks the issues that the government will have to take into account.
Andrew Davies, Mark Thomson
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European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 28, Issue 30, October 22, 2025.As the reduction of transition metal oxides by coal poses a significant climate risk, the use of alternative reducing agents such as hydrogen is becoming increasingly important. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the reduction pathways of transition metal oxides from groups 6 to 8.
Michael Häger +2 more
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The international ocean transport industry in crisis : assessing the reasons and outlook [PDF]
Until 1980, the world merchant fleet expanded rapidly in response to thriving seatrade markets. Since then, it has not grown much. The industry did not adjust effectively to periodic global recession, and the fleet's earnings deteriorated as the gap ...
Peters, Hans Jurgen
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Corrosion Behavior of Additively Manufactured Steels: A Comprehensive Review
steel research international, Volume 96, Issue 10, Page 51-79, October 2025.This review explores the corrosion behavior of various steel types, including austenitic, martensitic, duplex, low‐alloy, and maraging steels, produced via additive manufacturing (AM). It discusses how AM impacts material properties, such as grain structure and the formation of defects like porosity, and highlights the importance of optimizing process ...
Eneko Villabona +4 more
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How Much Did The Liberty Shipbuilders Forget? [PDF]
This paper produces new estimates of the rate of organizational forgetting in the well-known case study of US wartime ship production. I show that estimation is easily colored by problems of unobserved product heterogeneity and sensitivity to ...
Peter Thompson
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Virtual integration platform for computational fluid dynamics [PDF]
, 2009 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools used in shipbuilding industry involve multiple disciplines, such as resistance, manoeuvring, and cavitation. Traditionally, the analysis was performed separately and sequentially in each discipline, which often ...
Duffy, A. +5 more
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Better Auditing for Better Contracting: Eight Recommendations to Reform the Defense Contract Audit Agency and Other Federal Government Audit [PDF]
, 2012 Examines why the DCAA's audits of government contractors sometimes fail. Proposes reforms to strengthen oversight, including giving auditors authority to subpoena contractor records and shifting from limited to risk-based audits and random ...
Pratap Chatterjee
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Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] The Campbell experience demonstrates that many strategies of late twentieth-century capitalism had precursors earlier in the century. Many components of Campbell\u27s strategy, surprisingly, are as typical of today\u27s neoliberal globalizing ...
Sidorick, Daniel
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How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study [PDF]
This paper uses previously unavailable historical records to show that several assumptions central to a learning by doing explanation of productivity growth in the construction of Liberty ships during World War II are mistaken.
Peter Thompson
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