Design Oriented Model of Plate Forming for Shipbbuilding.

摘要

Ship designers as well as product designers in general are most concerned with the function and form of the design, and typically cannot pay adequate attention to the manufacturing consequences of their design decisions. Much of this problem can be alleviated by providing the designer with new tools that allow easy, yet thorough exploration of material and process options as part of the design process. This paper will present a prototype of such a tool, aimed at providing process information about bending and rolling of plate. The model presented is derived from first principles of mechanics and can provide a plethora of information. However the unique aspect of this work is the development and presentation of design-oriented information, such as optimization tradeoffs of process/material selection, and process control options ranging from purely manual to mechanized to fully automatic.