Ship design in the era of digital transition: a state-of-the-art report

Apostolos Papanikolaou; Evangelos Boulougouris; Stein-Ove Erikstad; Stefan Harries; Austin Kana

doi:10.59490/imdc.2024.784

Ship design in the era of digital transition: a state-of-the-art report

Apostolos Papanikolaou, Evangelos Boulougouris, Stein-Ove Erikstad, Stefan Harries, Austin Kana

Naval Architecture, Ocean And Marine Engineering

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Abstract

The evolution of ship design from a manual toward a computer-aided, digital approach has been drastic after the 1970s, with the explosive development of computer hardware and software systems. In today’s era of smart digitalization in the frame of Industry 4.0, recently introduced digital/software tools and systems increase the efficiency and quality of the life-cycle ship design process, but also the operational complexity and the demand for proper training of users of software platforms. Parametric optimisation and simulation-driven design, product lifecycle management, digital twins and artificial intelligence are nowadays frequently used by the maritime industry during the commissioning/quality control activities and in the various phases of ship design, ship operation and ship production. This paper presents an overview of notable developments in the above areas and the way ahead to respond to present and future challenges of the maritime industry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 15th International Marine Design Conference
Subtitle of host publication	IMDC-2024
Chapter	Keynote
Pages	1-40
Number of pages	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.59490/imdc.2024.784
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2024

Funding

The support of the presented research by the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program, Projects HOLISHIP (Grant Agreement No689074), TrAM (Grant Agreement No 769303), Orcelle (Grant No 101096673) andDT4GS (Grant Agreement No 101056799), is acknowledged. Dr. Harries has been partially supported by the Horizon Europe project “RETROFIT55 –Retrofit solutions to achieve 55% GHG reduction by 2030”, grant agreement 101096068 (see https://www.retrofit55.eu/).Prof. Boulougouris has been partially supported by the Horizon Europe project “ESY-EcoShipYard”, grant agreement 101138730.He also acknowledgesthe support from RCG and DNV, sponsors of the Maritime Safety Research Centreat the University of Strathclyde.

Keywords

State-of-the-Art report
Ship Design Methodologies and Tools
holistic ship design
Multi-objective& ParametricOptimisation
Simulation-Driven Ship Design
Product Lifecycle Management
digital twins
Artificial Intelligence

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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