HOLISHIP - HOLIstic optimisation of SHIP design and operation for life cycle
The face of ship design is changing. The vastly increasing complexity of European built ships and maritime structures as well as the growing number of rules and regulations call for novel concepts of product design and testing. HOLISHIP develops the next generation of ship design systems for the European maritime industry by addressing urgent problems of today’s ship design practice, which consider future requirements and challenges by introducing a novel holistic ship design concept for life cycle.
Most maritime assets (ships and marine structures) are typically associated with large investments and are seldom built in large series. Where the automotive, rail and aircraft industry benefit from the economy of series production, this is not the case for maritime structures which are typically designed to refined customer requirements increasingly determined by the need for high efficiency, flexibility and low environmental impact at a competitive price. In the maritime field, product design is thus subject to global trade-offs among traditional constraints (customer needs, technical requirements, cost) and new requirements such as life-cycle cost, environmental impact, enhanced safety rules. One of the most important design objectives is to minimise the life-cycle cost, taking into account maintenance, refitting, renewal, manning, recycling, environmental footprint, etc. The trade-off among all these requirements must be assessed and evaluated efficiently and reliably in the first steps of the design process on the basis of customer / owner specifications.
The above requirements, constraints and objectives call for novel design tools including multi-objective optimisation and virtual testing of the overall design and its components as well as its economic and ecologic impact. HOLISHIP addresses these urgent industrial and societal needs by the development of innovative design methodologies and tools that can be employed already at an early design stage, while looking for the entire life-cycle in an integrated design environment. The introduced holistic concept is implemented in integrated design s/w platforms and allows the exploration of the huge design space in comparatively short lead times. The HOLISHIP design approach is demonstrated by digital mock-ups and a large range of industry led application studies on the design and performance of ships maritime structures.
HOLISHIP started in September 2016 and is a four years project ( www.holiship.eu) .
