Advanced Modelling and Virtual Product Simulation in the Design and Build of Warships - A Practical View
Abstract
In considering Reduction of Military Vehicle Acquisition Time and Cost through Advanced Modelling and Virtual Product Simulation' practical experience spanning five years of ship and submarine design and build was reviewed to seek quantification of the contribution made to cost reduction. It concluded that advanced modelling and virtual product simulation must be an integral part of the engineering processes to achieve an advantageous contribution to cost. This involves an effective design process and an efficient means of access to the appropriate product data supporting the geometric model/simulation technologies. The application of Advanced Modelling and Virtual Product Simulation technologies is of limited value when used independently without the close association between the geometric models and the associated functional and physical data attributes which describe the requirement and design solution. This notion can also be illustrated in the traditional case of wood or scaled plastic physical mock-ups of ship or submarine layouts where modelled components were tagged' with a label description, or color coded. i.e. orange to represent electrical routes, grey for HVAC and pre-defined color codes for various pipe systems. Thus an advanced virtual model without any access to underlying data attributes is little more that a pretty picture
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADP014145
Entities
People
- John L. Martin