Ship Design V - Design Methods

• Ship types
• Owner Requirements and Core Mission Analyses
• Requirements elucidation
• Top-down approach, including similar vessels, regressions and previous designs
• Bottom-up approach, including design building blocks and systems based approaches
• Design Methodoly, including analyses bottlenecks and iterative processes
• Importance of Stability, Structural, Seakeeping and Propulsion (very simplified) analyses.
• Design options and tradeoffs
• "What-if" scenarios (epoch-era matrix)
• General Arrangement

Upon completion of the module, the candidate is to have...

Knowledge about:

• Different Ship Types
• Relevant Ship Design Methods
• Decision-making tools
• Various aspects of ship characteristics

Skills in:​

• General Arrangement drawings
• Ship design methods and processes
• When to use which methods
• Assessing different requirements against each other

Competence in:​

• Ship design processes
• Decision making in ship design
• Risk analysis ("What-ifs")

Lectures, exercises, laboratory tests, mandatory assignments.