Minor repairs to the exterior of rubber sonar domes can be accomplished by divers.
Sonar dome rubber window manual.
Figure 6 shows the plys or layers of a surface ship rubber sonar dome.
Since 1985 rubber sonar domes have been manufactured with tbt only on the exterior surface.
1 discharged overboard if the vessel is waterborne or 2 collected for proper management ashore if the vessel is in drydock.
2 2 releases to the environment there are two sonar dome discharges discharges of the water from the interior of sonar domes and external discharges.
The 19 ton bow domes are made with a rubber wire reinforced material that has nearly the same density of seawater.
Thus the name sonar dome rubber window.
Goodrich has been supplying sonar domes windows and acoustic materials to the u s.
Navy for over 35 years.
The ship s sonar array is guarded by the dome and minimizes the interference in sound transmission and reception which empowers the diagnosis and classification.
The most common repair is patching the rubber window.
The sonar dome rubber window sdrw 1 technical manual has been prepared to provide guidance to both naval and commercial activities which install repair groom or maintain sonar domes and their associated pressurization systems.
Epp also provides field services for the installation inspection and repair of its sonar domes in support of customers.
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The water emptied from the sonar dome interior is.
The first five ship classes included are uss ticonderoga cg 47 uss nimitz cvn 68 uss spruance dd.
This letter promulgates chapter 17 of the underwater ship husbandry manual.
Navy diving manual volume 2 the use of sidescan sonar and other search equipment whenever possible.
Sonar dome rubber window is a transparent housing that circumambience the sonar transducer array on the bow of destroyers and cruisers forging the sonar s sensor system.
Sonar dome design a dome design is always a compromise between sonar acoustic performance with respect to dome material material thickness dome shape position of the array inside the dome baffle sonar s out put power external noise and anechoic and mechanical strength to withstand high slamming conditions at sea.
These domes are installed on cruisers and destroyer class type size.
A diver removes loose rubber prepares the edges to receive a patch and affixes a rubber patch with an amine polymer.
The sonar dome rubber window has been manufactured at the company s facility in jacksonville florida us to the us navy.
This chapter is the first document to detail specific inspection procedures for each ship class.
