Hull Structural Design

The basic elements of a ship design depend on each other and these dependencies are registered in AVEVA Marine. Any change to the design will affect a number of elements throughout the ship. When refining the design, these registered relationships between elements can be made use of.

AVEVA Marine Structural Design supports the designer in decisions regarding the preliminary definition and arrangement of some of these elements, namely the main ship structures and major equipment. It also provides the framework for associated design guidance. The design can be refined to a level, where classification drawings, preliminary steel material estimates, weld lengths and weights and centers of gravity reports can be produced.

Initial and preliminary design is less resource demanding than detail design, but the amount of work needed for detail design is strongly dependent on the level of the preliminary design. This is illustrated by the fact that a very large percentage of the building cost is allocated during the first steps in the design process. All preliminary structural definitions developed by Structural Design can be used directly by other AVEVA Marine applications for detail design and preparation of production information (Hull, Outfit, Assembly Planning ). This ensures that no definition or arrangement made during the preliminary design has to be done all over again in the detail design phase. Another benefit of speeding up the initial and preliminary design phase by using AVEVA Marine Structural Design is that a larger number of design alternatives can be compared and that approval from the relevant classification society can be obtained much earlier. This will lead to a better design, from both a technical and economical point of view. With this background, Structural Design is the focus of on four major areas:

1. Fast Modelling

2. Early Analysis and Estimates

3. Generation of Drawings

4. Smooth Transition to Detail Design