Future ships: Design and cost analysis of unmanned ships

Unmanned ships are a new concept in the maritime sector. The concept of unmanned ships is driven by safety of life, cost and the shortage in seafarers. However, it is uncertain how the change from manned to unmanned ships in?uences the design and exploitation of the ship. Therefore, the in?uences on the ship will be researched in this thesis....

Optimization of maintenance strategy for power generation on satellite gas platforms

Declining production, continuously rising cost levels, low oil prices and the subsequent declining reserves, are forcing the oil and gas industry to reduce its operating expenditures. This study focuses on how the best maintenance policies for the power generation on unmanned satellite gas platforms of Total Exploration and Production...

Helicopter-Ship Qualification Testing

The goal of this research project is to develop a novel test methodology which can be used for optimizing cost and time efficiency of helicopter-ship qualification testing without reducing safety. For this purpose, the so-called “SHOL-X” test methodology has been established, which includes the associated predictive software tool as developed in...

Production of composite ship hulls. Developing cost price estimation for composite ship hulls.

This master thesis contains the development of cost price estimation for the bulding of composite ship hulls. The model is based on the steps necessary for the production of composite ship hull