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000007653 02470 $$2doi$$a10.24868/issn.2515-818X.2020.011
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000007653 037__ $$aGENERAL
000007653 245__ $$aA CASE STUDY INTO AN AUTOMATED DETAILED LAYOUT GENERATION APPROACH IN EARLY STAGE NAVAL SHIP DESIGN
000007653 269__ $$a2020-10-05
000007653 336__ $$aConference Proceedings
000007653 520__ $$aThe Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence identified that detailing warship layouts to space level of detail during the concept definition design phase is a complex and time consuming process. Currently it can take up to 150 man hours to complete a feasible general arrangement plan (GAP). Yet, these GAPs are crucial for balancing requirements and budget with technical feasible designs. Insufficient consideration of spatial details during concept definition increases the probability that sizing and integration issues will emerge later in the design process. This paper discusses the first steps undertaken to integrate a new layout generation tool, called WARGEAR (WARship GEneral ARrangement), into the DMO ship design process. WARGEAR is able to semi-automatically generate feasible and balanced detailed layouts in a matter of minutes, thus providing almost real-time feedback and design insight to naval architects. In this paper the issues of tool validation and user acceptance are addressed via a realistic warship design test case and a presentation of the test case results to a larger group of naval architects and senior management at the DMO respectively. The test case showed that WARGEAR is able to generate detailed layouts that compare well to GAPs manually generated by naval architects. The attendees at the presentation were generally positive, but also provided valuable feedback for further development of the WARGEAR tool and methodology. This shows the potential of WARGEAR to increase the speed of detailed layout generation to a matter of minutes and to improve the early stage design process by providing early insight into detailed layouts and their design drivers.
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000007653 6531_ $$aLayout design optimisation
000007653 6531_ $$ageneral arrangements
000007653 6531_ $$aoptimisation
000007653 6531_ $$aearly stage design
000007653 6531_ $$awarship design
000007653 6531_ $$aWARGEAR
000007653 7001_ $$ale Poole. JJ$$uDelft University of Technology, the Netherlands
000007653 7001_ $$aDuchateau, EAE$$uDefence Materiel Organisation, the Netherlands
000007653 7001_ $$avan Oersb, BJ$$uDefence Materiel Organisation, the Netherlands
000007653 7001_ $$aKana, AA$$uDelft University of Technology, the Netherlands
000007653 773__ $$tConference Proceedings of INEC
000007653 773__ $$jINEC 2020
000007653 789__ $$whttps://zenodo.org/record/4472218$$2URL$$eIsIdenticalTo
000007653 85641 $$uhttps://www.imarest.org/events/inec-2020$$yConference website
000007653 8564_ $$9bb7ae96a-25d9-4c31-a051-c74a9e822068$$s1642743$$uhttps://library.imarest.org/record/7653/files/INEC_2020_Paper_15.pdf