COMPARATIVE PARAMETRIC STUDIES OF MONOHULL AND SURFACE EFFECT SHIPS
Surface Effect Ship and Monohull parametric designs were developed to common standards and common sets of requirements, using whole-ship Design Synthesis Models. The parametric designs were developed to U.S. Coast Guard Patrol-Boat Standards and the requirements included speeds ranging from 30 to 55 knots, payloads from 10 to 50 tons, range from 500 to 1500 nm and design sea-states from 0 to 4. Over 3000 SES and 3000 Monohull computer-generated parametric designs were developed to allow the optimum solutions to be selected for each set of requirements. These optimum solutions were then compared on the basis of platform acquisition cost, ship displacement and installed power. The study was conducted in three phases: Phase-I focused on developing common design standards and assumptions and on the choice of propulsor and engine types. Phase-II focused on seakeeping and the choice of seakeeping criteria. Phase-III focused on the influence of requirements on costs using the subsystem choices and ground rules established in Phases-I and II. Results are presented in the form of cost, weight and power versus requirements which provides a means of ensuring the selection of affordable requirements and, once having established a set of requirements, determining which hullform, Monohull or SES, would be the most suitable choice.
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Supplemental Notes:
- FAST '91, 1st Intl Conf on Fast Sea Transportation; 17-21 June 1991; Trondheim, Norway. Procs. Publ by Tapir Publishers, Trondheim, v 2, p 965 [15 p, 3 ref, 2 tab, 12 fig]
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Authors:
- Goubault, P
- Oehlmann, H
- Publication Date: 1991
Language
- English
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Design; Design speed; Surface effect ships
- Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria
- Old TRIS Terms: Monohulls
- Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00701826
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM