There is an interest in introducing a high speed marine vehicle for crew boat service to the offshore oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Consequently, it is necessary to develop a light weight hull structure suitable for rapid modular construction. This paper presents the authors numerical and experimental evaluation of a lightweight aluminum hull panel. An optimization routine was developed to investigate the sensitivity of the design to different structural arrangements. An example of the optimization routine for a stiffened aluminum plate is presented.
National Shipbuilding Research Program. 1997 Ship Production Symposium, Paper Number 18: Development of a Production Optimization Program for Design and Manufacture of Light Weight/High Strength Hull
1997
10 pages
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English