Approach to develop ship design evaluation rule-base

The Smart Ship Systems Design (S3D) prototype is a comprehensive engineering and design environment capable of performing concept development and comparison (weights, power demand, speed, range, hull-form etc.), and high level ship system tradeoff studies. This online collaborative design environment is expected to be applied at the early stages of a ship design problem. Currently, the S3D environment contains tools for the development and simulation of the electrical, piping, and mechanical ship systems and the arrangement of the system and is capable of static power flow simulation for all major disciplines. However, the tool does not have a robust capability to evaluate designs using well established engineering guidelines. The research described herein aims to address this gap and this paper presents proposed approaches and outcomes of preliminary studies.