ABSTRACT
Naval architects create working and cost-efficient designs and also meet safety requirements in the early design phases of ship design projects. Specialised software is used for these tasks, after which the end result is usually published in the form of a 2D general arrangement. In this paper, we demonstrate how a general arrangement can be used to develop a ship concept in a 3D model, and how the concept is connected to supporting software and calculation aids. We have named this concept the Intelligent General Arrangement. The Intelligent General Arrangement allows a single naval architect to draw up a rough concept, which specialists in e.g. classification design and machinery arrangement can later add to simultaneously. It also allows the design to be optimised on a dedicated platform, as will be demonstrated in the HOLISHIP project (Holiship, 2018). The Intelligent General Arrangement contains internal modules, such as a weight calculation module and an analysis tool. It is also connected to external modules such as hydrostatic and hydrodynamic software and classification societies’ rule-based calculators. The Intelligent General Arrangement can be easily modified. The aim is to utilise an optimisation platform to enable the rapid elaboration of ship concepts, thereby enhancing the entire design process and producing better end results.
