BRINGING EFFICIENCY IN THE NAVAL SHIP DESIGN PROCESS WITH COTS SOFTWARE

摘要

The requirements for modern naval vessels are becoming more and more complicated each year due to the different tasks and environmental scenarios that the vessels must be designed to comply with. Combining this with high pressure to shorten the time frame in the design process leaves small possibility for the design variations. These factors increase the challenge to achieve breakthrough designs that bring more robust and cost-effective ship structures to owners and operators. This paper presents new possibilities and practices which enable shorter design cycle times resulting in better designs by utilizing currently available commercial-off-the-shelf software. This is highlighted with some examples, having a special focus on finite element model creation, combat survivability assessment and kill criteria for both personnel and equipment, thus yielding in the assessment of mission capability level.