eprintid: 10200153 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/01/53 datestamp: 2024-11-15 16:56:04 lastmod: 2024-11-15 16:56:04 status_changed: 2024-11-15 16:56:04 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Mukti, MH creators_name: Pawling, RJ creators_name: Andrews, DJ title: Computer aided sketching in the early-stage design of complex vessels ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: F45 keywords: Civil, Engineering, Engineering, Engineering, Engineering, Marine, Ocean, Oceanography, Physical Sciences, Science & Technology, Technology note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Various methods have been developed for automated and semi-automated architecture generation in the computer aided ship design processes. The question remains as to how this can speed up the design process without losing the requirement elucidation intent for concept phase. This paper presents a novel approach with a software toolset to develop design and analysis approaches to early stage ship design and provide a sketching tool. This was done by enhancing the user interface and experience of the UCL Network Block Approach to achieve a “thinking sketch” in a way that is “quick” and “fluid” enough to promote inventive and creative sketching comparable to hand sketching. The UCL Network Block Approach draws on the UCL Design Building Block (DBB) approach and uses network methods applied to the synthesis of distributed ship service systems (DS3) and Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD) to expand DS3 definition in early stage ship design. The UCL originated inside-out/DBB approach to sketch driven synthesis has been made translatable to both DBB ship descriptions and ensuring early stage naval architectural “balance”. The proposed approach has been used for the first time successfully to not only carry out a rapid sketching exercise for a naval ship design but also enable quick preliminary analysis of a set of DS3 networks. date: 2024-08 date_type: published publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117407 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2285001 doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117407 lyricists_name: Andrews, David lyricists_id: DJAND03 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: N00014-15-1-2752 [Naval International Cooperative Opportunities in Science and Technology Program (NICOP)]; [US Navy Office of Naval Research] full_text_status: restricted publication: Ocean Engineering volume: 305 article_number: 117407 pages: 27 issn: 0029-8018 citation: Mukti, MH; Pawling, RJ; Andrews, DJ; (2024) Computer aided sketching in the early-stage design of complex vessels. Ocean Engineering , 305 , Article 117407. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117407 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117407>. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200153/1/SKETCHING%20FINAL.pdf