AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF DATA BASES IN COMPUTER-AIDED NAVAL SHIP DESIGN

This thesis is in microfiche form. The introduction of interactive computer programs represents a major advance in the field of computer-aided design. However, many of the design programs in use suffer from the disadvantages of lack of flexibility in the programs, incompatibility of input and output between programs and between programs and databases, and lack of transportability of programs to different facilities. To overcome these a software package known as DEX has been developed that can be adapted to almost any computer system that supports Fortran; it provides facilities for running task-oriented programs or "modules". The work reported in this thesis relates to the further development of the DEX system. Although DEX is suitable for any computer-aided design task the author considers it particularly well adapted to ship design, and he presents a proposal for the organisation of DEX databases for the preliminary design of naval ships, existing ship databases being used to support a generalised ship synthesis model.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thesis submitted June 1981 (268 pp., 12 ref., 13 fig., 17 tab.)
• Authors:
  • Celotto, R C
• Publication Date: 1981

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00683672
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM