Overview
First-Order Design Tool for Beam-Stiffened Plate Structures (2012-465)
Project Team:
- Applied Thermal Sciences
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Vigor Industrial
- Bollinger Shipyards
- Marinette Marine
2012
NSRP ASE Investment: $150K
Objective:
This project created the “First Order Design Tool (FODT)”, which is custom software to speed up the evaluation of alternative designs aimed at meeting strength and weight goals for beam-stiffened plate structures used in naval shipbuilding. The FODT allows the comparison of a wide variety of test cases in minutes and can replace exhaustive volumes of properties of beam/plate structures that have been used but seldom updated. Finite Element (numerical) Modeling (FEM) was used to verify the accuracy of the results of the FODT.
Key Deliverables:
Request Final Report from NSRP – Limited Distribution authorized to the U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry and NSRP ASE Program representatives