Virtual prototyping solutions, such as MSC Apex, ensure safety and reliability and helps make the design and verification process faster and more efficient. Until recent years, engineers in the shipbuilding industries have not typically used finite element analysis but relied on hand-calculations and assumptions. Engineers will then either affect the shape or position of load bearing members to change the overall load path through the structures.
The structure’s performance is then typically optimized through design iterations. Engineers typically try to predict stress distribution throughout the structure and the final assembly capacity to carry loads. Hexagon PPM’s Intergraph Smart 3D provides all of the capabilities needed to design ship structures and maintain their 3D “as-built” representations. Because of the complex representation, they share some of the same design engineering characteristics. Most of these massive assemblies require many manual parts, welded together. Shipbuilding industries are required to maintain their 3D “as-built” representations.
Driven by market pressures to control production, reduce operating costs, address environmental concerns, ensure safety, and increase human comfort, manufacturers look to reduce material costs, design, and development costs. From recreational craft, to tankers, to ships built for defense and homeland security, modern shipbuilders are creating enormously complex systems.
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