Mukti, Muhammad;
Pawling, Rachel;
Andrews, David;
(2022)
The Network Block Approach Applied to the Initial Design of Submarine Distributed Ship Service Systems.
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(Proceedings) The 14th Annual International Marine Design Conference.
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME): Vancouver, Canada.
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Abstract
The paper follows on from a recent IJME paper and summarises a new early-stage ship design approach. This is termed the Network Block Approach (NBA) and combines the advantages of the UCL 3D physically based ship synthesis Design Building Block (DBB) approach and the Virginia Tech originated Architecture Flow Optimisation (AFO) method for distributed ship service systems (DS3). The approach has been applied to submarine DS3 design and utilises: a set of novel frameworks; and Qinetiq’s Paramarine CASD suite features. The proposed NBA enables the development of a submarine concept design to different levels of granularities. These range from modelling individual spaces to locating various DS3 components and system routings. The proposed approach also enables the designer to balance the energy demands of a set of distributed systems. This is done by performing a steady-state flow simulation and visualising the complexity of the submarine DS3 in a 3D multiplex network configuration. The potential benefits and limitations from such a 3D based physical and network synthesis are presented. The paper concludes with a discussion of the Network Block Approach comparing it to previous applications of network theory which have been to surface ship design. It concludes that it would be possible to better estimate DS3 weight and space inputs to early-stage submarine design and also enable radical submarine configurations and DS3 options to be reflected in early stage submarine design for better concept exploration and requirement elucidation. Finally, further work on the sensitivity of the approach to designer inputs will be addressed in future papers.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The Network Block Approach Applied to the Initial Design of Submarine Distributed Ship Service Systems |
| Event: | The 14th Annual International Marine Design Conference |
| Location: | Voncouver, Canada |
| Dates: | 26 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2022 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5957/IMDC-2022-249 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5957/IMDC-2022-249 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Cobol, ds3, artificial intelligence, granularity program, synthesis, programming language, architecture, ds3 synthesis, node, component granularity program |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151239 |
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