FUNCTIONS WITH CONTROLLED CURVATURE DISTRIBUTION FOR SHIP SURFACE DEFINITION

Shipbuilding from the earliest design concepts to its actual production stage requires the use of many different mathematical functions to express the hull form. Computerized automation of shipbuilding has been hindered because the designer likes flexibility while production needs accuracy in detail and hydrodynamic optimization requires the simplicity of equations and easy operation with some degree of freedom. Reconciliation of these differences is the subject of this paper which presents a mathematical tool that can be applied to the design, optimization and production of a ship.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the International Conference on Computer Applications in the Automation of Shipyard Operation and Ship Design, held by IFIP/IFAC/JSNA, Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 28-30, 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  North Holland Publishing Company

  335 Jan Van Galenstraat, P.O. Box 103
  Amsterdam-W,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Buczkowski, L
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Computers; Hulls; Information processing; Naval architecture; Surfaces; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computer aided analysis; Ship design
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull surfaces
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00052012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Purdue University
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. VII-2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 26 1974 12:00AM