Course - Ship Design V - Design Methods - SKID2300
Ship Design V - Design Methods
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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