WARGEAR: ‘Real time’ generation of detailed layout plans of surface warships during early stage design

Generating detailed warship layouts is crucial to check technical feasibility and performance consistent with emergent requirement elucidation during early stage design. However, generating feasible detailed layouts is a complex and time consuming task. Even today, detailed layout plans are often manually drawn using CAD software, taking up...

A framework for vulnerability reduction in early stage design of naval ship systems

Naval ships are designed to operate and survive in hostile environments. As such, vulnerability reduction is a major topic of interest during the design of a naval ship. For modern naval ships the vulnerability is largely determined by the design and layout of distributed systems. The vulnerability of these systems needs to be assessed early on,...

Design space exploration for on-board energy distribution systems: A new case study

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of an automatic topology generator that uses genetic algorithm techniques to generate many alternative system designs and in doing so enables design space exploration for on-board energy distribution systems. This will provide better insight in the relation between design requirements (e.g. budget), system...

Interactive steering of a ship synthesis model for early requirements elucidation

SIMPLER AND FASTER: A 2.5D PACKING-BASED APPROACH FOR EARLY STAGE SHIP DESIGN

A Packing Approach for the Early Stage Design of Service Vessels

Naval architects often say that every ship is a compromise between many conflicting requirements. This widely-held belief immediately raises the question as to what kind of ship and, therefore, what kind of compromise, would suit the ship owner’s interest best. The approach presented in this thesis aims to improve the early stage design process...

Modeling Complex Vessels for Use in a 3D Packing Approach: An Application to Deepwater Drilling Vessel Design

A 3D Packing Approach for the Early Stage Configuration Design of Ships

An Optimisation-Based Space Allocation Routine for the Generation of Feasible Ship Designs

Combining a knowledge system with computer-aided design

Submarines for the future, a new design model

Issues when selecting naval ship configurations from a pareto-optimal set

Development and Implementation of an Optimisation-Based Space Allocation Routine for the Generation of Feasible Concept Designs