Exploitable results Know-how on Pod propulsion in fast ship design Increase of technical knowledge on the POD propulsion system and its impact on the different aspects of ship behaviour and ship design. Although the direct applications of the project were for high speed vessels of more than 30 knots the increased know-how will be used to widen the range of consultancy services and to support the design process of the Ship Yard also regarding vessels that operate at a lower speed range. Implementation of prediction tools for podded ships The in-house available software tools for predicting ship sea-keeping and manoeuvring performance will be implemented and validated to include the effects of POD propulsions. The enhanced capability will be used to augment the range of services offered to third parties and to support th Ship Yard in the design process. General prestige (The involvement of SSRC in FASTPOD project) The involvement of SSRC in FASTPOD project, numerical and experimental studies significantly contribute departments reputation as centre of excellence in research and hence its overall ranking in Research Assessment Exercise through research accumulation and publication of the papers in archived internationally conferences and journals. It has also helped attracting new, high quality researches and industrial projects by forming consortiums in European, international and national level. General prestige The development of both the test and research facilities and the increased expertise significantly contribute to attracting both future students and further research funding to the university. The knowledge and experience gained through the research project is used to improve the standard of teaching at the university and to extend the content of existing lecture series. T-POD Conference First dedicated international conference to disseminate the activities of the FASTPOD project and bring the advances in the technology to a public audience. The last decade has been witnessing a growing uptake of integrated electric driven pod propulsion units. Since their commercial introduction in the early 1990s their range of application, capacity and type of unit has increased tremendously. In recognition of this the European Commission has supported a number of large collaborative research and development projects in relation to pod technologies. Further in this last meeting, the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) established a specialist committee on Azimuthing Pod Propulsion, to review, over the next three years the procedures for testing, extrapolation as well as other issues including off design loads, stability and impact on IMO criteria. In spite of the above activities there had been no focused international event to discuss the past, present and future of pod propulsion. It was therefore timely to gather together pod manufacturers, shipyards, operators, designers, test facilities, classification societies, regulatory authorities, researchers and other interested parties to discuss and disseminate advances in pod propulsion technology. T-POD provided a platform for this discussion and will serve to disseminate the activities within the Fifth Framework Projects sponsored by the EC Framework Programme (FP5). Widening of the project portfolio with highly technically advanced ship designs The results will be exploited commercially. The results will be used in shipyard design department for preparation of a new project. On the basis of the knowledge and competence obtained from research project the offer of the shipyard will be extended. The expected benefits are work for people and profitable production of vessels. Environmental impact of fast multipod propulsion The conducted wash waves measurements and versatile sets of manoeuvrability tests have delivered indices how to exploit fast podded vessel in coastal regions and harbours to minimize or entirely eliminate possible negative impacts to natural environment. Due analyses have pointed out how reduce also negative impacts of human beings on board. Generally, it was possible to build a model of an environmentally friendly fast cargo vessel. Extended commercial offer by new high speed vessels Basing on results of the FASTPOD project, SSN, as the builder of wide range of container ships as well as multipurpose vessels and Ro-Ro ships, will extend their commercial offer by high speed versions of mentioned ship¿s types. It will enable SSN to become more competitive on the shipbuilding market. Advance in nonlinear structural analysis procedures application to contact problem solution Increase in knowledge how to use effectively existing software to contact problem solution will be made available to third parties during daily services of CTO. Teaching Expertise The knowledge and experience gained through the research project is used to improve the standard of teaching at the university and to extend the content of existing lecture series. Further, the specific knowledge will be used to supervise dedicated student research projects. Implementation of SEA to high frequency vibration and noise analysis Implementation of commercially available tools to statistical energy analysis of different complex objects will contribute to attract further customers and will enlarge CTO offer to shipbuilding industry. Expertise and prestige The whole scope of carried out investigations and analytical studies has made possible to built respective files of results, characteristics and numerical tools. Also the experimental tools have been developed in the meaningful scope. It helps to lead versatile consultative works in fields of both ship hydrodynamics and structure mechanics. Know-how acquisition on POD propulsion in ship design Increase of technical knowledge on the POD propulsion system and its impact on the different aspects of ship behaviour and ship design. Although the direct applications of the project were for high speed vessels of more than 30 knots the increased know-how will be used to widen the range of consultancy services and to support the design process of the Ship Yard also regarding vessels that operate at a lower speed range. Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
