Mukti, Muhammad; Pawling, Rachel; Andrews, David; (2022) Design for Support in the initial Design Using the Network Block Approach: The Submarine Case. In: (Proceedings) WARSHIP 2022: Designing Warships for the Future. (In press).

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Distributed Ship Service Systems (DS3) can be a major constraint on the location of hull berth unit locations and transverse bulkheads, which are essential for access to conduct maintenance and thus contribute to submarine Sustainability. The paper proposes a new early-stage ship design (ESSD) approach that would aid the designer to consider DS3 physically and logically much earlier in the design process. This approach is termed the Network Block Approach and merges the advantages of the UCL 3D physically based ship synthesis Design Building Block (DBB) approach and the network-based approach for distributed ship service systems (DS3) synthesis already proposed for naval combatants. The proposed Network Block Approach enables the modelling of individual spaces to locate and zone various DS3 components and routings for hull unit boundaries and major bulkheads, which could improve maintenance. A discussion on the importance of DS3 routing is to warship Sustainability through the complexity of a submarine design example and how the proposed approach enables this to be explored in ESSD is presented.

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