AN APPROACH TO SHIP STRUCTURAL DESIGN BY COMPUTER IN LLOYD'S REGISTER

Lloyd's Register of Shipping is involved in the design of reliable and economic ship structures suited to the particular environment in which they will spend their useful life. This is achieved by the use of mathematical models to simulate the ocean wave environment in which the ship operates, and the ship response to this environment. The practical application of such mathematical techniques is only made possible by the effective use of high-speed digital computers of large capacity and their associated peripheral equipment. This paper outlines the engineering philosophy behind the integrated structural design system, and describes both the engineering and computer systems, which together provide the vehicle for its implementation.

• 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:
  • Mathewson, J I
  • Goodman, R A
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 7 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: V-11

Subject/Index Terms

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

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051995
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Purdue University
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 1974 12:00AM