An improved approach for on-board distribution system robustness estimation in early-stage ship design

Reliability and survivability play a key role in the ship operation and ship design process of navy ships, but increasingly also of complex commercial vessels. These requirements prove relevant for different elements within the ship design scope, including the distribution system design of data, energy and fluid (water, fuel, oil, etc.). In...

On early-stage design of vital distribution systems on board ships

This research aims to help in solving problems experienced with system integration in early-stage ship and system design by enabling automated design space exploration for on-board energy distribution systems. An Automatic Topology Generation (ATG) tool is developed and tested to do so. The ATG tool supports system designers in making trade-off...