Development of Integrated Ship Structural Design Technology.

Abstract

The report presents the planning and overall strategy for a five-year inter-disciplinary effort to develop a comprehensive reliability-based Ship Structural Design System, involving applied hydro-analysis, non-linear sealoads, improved first principles structural analysis and fallure mode evaluations. Although not funded beyond the planning stage, the project produced an improved QUAD4 finite element and an improved method for predicting flexural-torsional buckling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310086

Entities

People

  • Owen F. Hughes

Organizations

  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Bending Moments
  • Buckling
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineering
  • Failure Analysis
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Frequency Response
  • Hot Spots
  • Mechanical Phenomena
  • Mechanics
  • Reliability
  • Safety
  • Structural Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design