To address increasing complexity of Europe[ds_preview]an built ships, 40 European industry and research partners have submitted the HOLISHIP proposal. Now they have been awarded an 11.4 mill. € grant to develop the next generation ship design system.
The »HOLIstic optimisation of SHIP design and operation for life cycle« proposal was submitted in response to the 2015 Call of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Transport Research Programme.
As the consortium explains, most maritime products are associated with large investments and are seldom built in large series. Where other modes of transport benefit from the economy of series production, this is not the case for maritime products 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. Product design is thus subject to global trade-offs among traditional constraints (customer needs, technical requirements, cost) and new requirements (life-cycle, environmental impact, rules), the developers say.
According to them advanced product design needs to adapt to profound, sometimes contradicting requirements and assure a flexible and optimised performance over the entire life-cycle for varying operational conditions. This calls for greatly improved design tools including multi- objective optimisation and finally virtual testing of the overall design and its components. HOLISHIP addresses these needs by the development of innovative design methodologies, combining design requirements at an early design stage and for the entire life-cycle in an integrated design environment.
Design integration will be implemented in practice by the development of integrated design s/w platforms and demonstrated by digital mock-ups and a large range of industry led application studies on the design and performance of ships and maritime structures. HOLISHIP will start in September 2016 with a duration of four years.
