Julie Chalfant, Blake Langland, Sherif Abdelwahed, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, Roger Dougal, Abhishek Dubey, Touria El Mezyani, JD Herbst, Thomas Kiehne, Juan Ordonez, others
CEM Publications 2012
Modern naval ship design involves complex interactions between multiple engineering disciplines and requires integration of various specialized tools. The S3D environment is innovative in providing a collaborative framework that enables designers from different disciplines to work in parallel while maintaining design consistency across different views and tools.
This paper describes the Smart Ship System Design (S3D) environment developed for collaborative early-stage ship design. The work presents tools and methodologies that enable multidisciplinary teams to collaborate on ship design while addressing challenges in systems integration, data exchange, and design optimization.
The S3D environment demonstrates successful integration of multiple specialized design tools including ASSET, Paramarine, and domain-specific analysis tools. The platform enables collaborative design with shared equipment catalogs, automated data propagation across tools, and support for multidisciplinary design optimization.
@inbook{Chalfant2012,
author = {Chalfant, Julie and Langland, Blake and Abdelwahed, Sherif and Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos and Dougal, Roger and Dubey, Abhishek and El Mezyani, Touria and Herbst, JD and Kiehne, Thomas and Ordonez, Juan and others},
title = {A collaborative early-stage ship design environment},
year = {2012},
abstract = {Recent advances in sensor and weapons systems are significantly increasing the electrical power that is required and the thermal loads that must be dissipated onboard US Navy ships. Thus, design tools and methods must bring detailed consideration of all disciplines early in the design process, including electrical, thermal and controls in addition to the traditional naval architecture and marine engineering. Effective interface of the multiple disciplines demands a collaborative design process. The Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium (ESRDC) has developed the backbone structure of a collaborative design environment with the goal of bringing together many disciplines early in the ship design process. This design environment brings many innovations, especially in the arena of simultaneous collaborative design. This paper describes the Smart Ship System Design (S3D) environment as developed to date, along with overall and discipline-specific visions of implementation of the environment in ship design.},
contribution = {minor},
file = {:Chalfant2012-A_collaborative_early-stage_ship_design_environment.pdf:PDF},
journal = {CEM Publications},
keywords = {ship design, collaborative engineering, multidisciplinary design, systems integration, design tools, data management}
}