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Integrating personnel movement simulation into prelimary ship design

Integrating personnel movement simulation into prelimary ship design

Andrews, D., Casarosa, L., Pawling, R., Galea, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-0001-6665, Deere, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-5171-2014 and Lawrence, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-0269-0231 (2008) Integrating personnel movement simulation into prelimary ship design. Transactions of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects Part A: International Journal of Maritime Engineering, 150 (1). pp. 19-34. ISSN 1479-8751 (Print), 1740-0716 (Online)

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Abstract

Traditionally, when designing a ship the driving issues are seen to be powering, stability, strength and seakeeping. Issues related to ship operations and evolutions are investigated later in the design process, within the constraint of a fixed layout. This can result in operational inefficiencies and limitations, excessive crew numbers and potentially hazardous situations.
This paper summarises work by University College London and the University of Greenwich prior to the completion of a three year EPSRC funded research project to integrate the simulation of personnel movement into early stage ship design. This integration is intended to facilitate the assessment of onboard operations while the design is still highly amenable to change.
The project brings together the University of Greenwich developed maritimeEXODUS personnel movement simulation software and the SURFCON implementation of the Design Building Block approach to early stage ship design, which originated with the UCL Ship Design Research team and has been implemented within the PARAMARINE ship design system produced by Graphics Research Corporation. Central to the success of this project is the definition of a suitable series of Performance Measures (PM) which can be used to assess the human performance of the design in different operational scenarios.
The paper outlines the progress made on deriving the PM from human dynamics criteria measured in simulations and their incorporation into a Human Performance Metric (HPM) for analysis. It describes the production of a series of SURFCON ship designs, based on the Royal Navy’s Type 22 Batch 3 frigate, and their analysis using the PARAMARINE and maritimeEXODUS software. Conclusions on the work to date and for the remainder of the project are presented addressing the integration of personnel movement simulation into the preliminary ship design process.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: [1] Paper (same title) also published in Conference Proceedings RINA International Conference on Human Factors in Ship Design, Safety & Operation, London, 21-22 March 2007, pp. 117-128 (ISBN 1-905040-34-2).
Uncontrolled Keywords: ship design, personnel movement, simulation software, SURFCON, PARAMARINE, performance measures, human performance metric
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
V Naval Science > VM Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Numerical Modelling & Process Analysis > Fire Safety Engineering Group
School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Last Modified: 15 Jul 2019 15:52
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/1199

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