Generating More Valid Designs During Design Exploration

Abstract

Concept Exploration Models (CEM) are powerful tools in the conceptual design phase, triggering naval architects towards unconventional or better solutions. However, the quality of the design-set depends on the evaluation of each concept design and its compliance to customer requirements. To improve design-set quality new evaluation-modules are developed to calculate sea-keeping, weight, and resistance and evaluate their compliance with requirements set by the U.S. Coast Guard. To make this possible the MATLAB based CEM was coupled with the sea-keeping program Shipmo2000 from the Marin Research Institute. In a final step the designs were graphically filtered and evaluated.

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“…More importantly, with the need to reduce the worldwide carbon footprint, designers now require highly innovative design approaches that consider full lifecycle expectations. Notably, scholars have made considerable strides toward the modernisation of preliminary ship design (Cui et al, 2012;Van Bruinessen et al, 2011;McDonald et al, 2012;Duchateau, 2016); however, the results are not keeping pace with demand.…”