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SKID2300

Ship Design V - Design Methods

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English and norwegian
Location Ålesund
Examination arrangement Project

About

About the course

Course content

  • 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

Learning outcome

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")

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, exercises, laboratory tests, mandatory assignments.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises, laboratory tests

Further on evaluation

5 Mandatory assignments - all must be approved to be able to delivery the final project.

Resit exam : Improved final project report.

If the student postpones the exam until the next regular examination period, a new project must be submitted.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Naval Architecture - Engineering (699SD)

Course materials

Lecture Notes

Kai Levander: System Based Ship Design (will be handed out in class)

Management of Ship Design (Stian Erichsen)

Subject areas

  • Marine System Design
  • Marine Structures

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