Vulnerability Analysis of an All-Electric Warship

Abstract

Traditional design processes usually rely on cost as the metric the designer uses to select among different alternatives. Sometimes when costs cannot be calculated we use weight, volume and efficiency as surrogates for cost. However minimizing costs does not necessarily give us the best design for a particular mission; this is particularly true for military ships. Proposals to include such considerations as quality of service and survivability as metrics to be used in a multi objective design process or as constraints have appeared in the literature. A tool that analyzes survivability of distributed systems at early stage design does not exist. In this thesis we develop a metric for survivability suitable for early stage design of destroyers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA540386

Entities

People

  • David G. Hanthorn

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Efficiency
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Naval Architecture
  • Naval Vessels
  • Navy
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Radar
  • Reliability
  • Ship Design
  • Ships
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vulnerability

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design