A Markov-based vulnerability assessment of distributed ship systems in the early design stage

Naval ships are designed to operate in hostile environments. As such, vulnerability reduction is an important aspect that needs to be assessed during the design. With the increased interest in electrification and automation on board naval ships, the vulnerability of distributed systems has become a major topic of interest. However, assessing...

A Design Tool for Machinery Space Arrangement

The subject of this master thesis is the development of a design tool to help Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam B.V. arrange the machinery spaces (engine room, switchboard rooms, separator rooms) aboard their vessels early in their design process. It applies the field of automatic design generation to a step in Vuyk’s design process to save time and...

A Markov chain based study on the availability of ship systems of a naval vessel: Insights for Early Stage Ship Design requirements

During the early stages of ship design exploration, design freedom is abundant but problem knowledge is scarce and most costs are already committed. This amounts to an incentive to look at the influences of the requirements on a design, to better understand how a concept is defined. This thesis investigates the operational architecture...

Analysis of evacuation performance of early stage ship designs using a Markov-Decision-Process model

This thesis research is conducted on behalf of the Delft University of Technology and Bureau Veritas Rotterdam BV, and the goal is to improve ship evacuation by analyzing this aspect early on in the design process. First, this summary will provide a background on the difficulties involved with the ship evacuation process . Next, an explanation...

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