@article{GENERAL,
      author = {Droste, K and le Poole, J},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/7652},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of INEC},
      title = {Integrating detailed layout generation with logistic  performance assessment to improve layout insights in early  stage warship design},
      abstract = {The performance of ‘internal layout and process  driven ships’ is dominated by its operational  processes. These operational processes are of a logistical  nature. Therefore these processes have a significant impact  on the arrangement of these ships. Early stage design  efforts are aimed to understand the interaction between the  layout and the operational processes aboard these ships to  gain timely design insights to inform the decision-making  process. Therefore, sufficiently detailed concept designs  are to be generated by naval architects and analysed to  de-risk requirements. While various tools have been  developed to support naval architects in generating layouts  with an increasing level of detail, the detailed evaluation  of operational performance is typically postponed to the  stage that only little change to the design is possible.  Hence, the naval architect’s expertise is currently  crucial to develop concept designs with acceptable  operational performance. However, this limits the amount of  explicit insight in layout performance available to  decision makers. Therefore there is a need for an  operational evaluation method that supports layout  development in early stage ship design. To address this  mismatch between layout generation and evaluation, this  paper proposes an integrated method that allows naval  architects to concurrently generate and evaluate  sufficiently detailed layouts. A test case is presented in  which the proposed method is used to generate a detailed  layout for a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) and evaluate this  layout based on operational processes. The test case shows  that the method can indeed be used to generate and evaluate  detailed layouts of internal layout and process driven  ships. However, the implementation of tooling for this  method proved to be challenging and thus requires further  attention. Nonetheless, the test case indicates that the  proposed method will improve early stage ship design by  helping naval architects to better understand the complex  interrelation between layout and operational processes.},
      number = {GENERAL},
      recid = {7652},
      address = {2020-10-05},
}