On the influence of primary and secondary structural members on the global strength of ship structures

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2016-07
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Diewald, Roman  
Gerlach, Bjarne  
Ehlers, Sören  
Institut
Konstruktion und Festigkeit von Schiffen M-10  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/5712
Start Page
435
End Page
442
Citation
International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering, MARTECH (1): 435-442 (2016-07)
Contribution to Conference
International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering, MARTECH 2016  
In the design of ship structures the economic efficiency plays an increasingly important role. In this paper a method to determine the influences of many structural members on any target with relatively few finite element calculations is presented. Therefore a well-known method called Design of Experiments, whose background is explained, is utilized. As an example, this method is applied on the structure of a tanker. The created FE model is described in detail. Afterwards, the structural components having the greatest effect on the strength and the least effect on the weight are determined for bending and torsion. From these results valuable hints for structural optimization are derived.