HOLISHIP

The face of ship design is changing. The vastly increasing complexity of European built ships and maritime structures as well as the growing number of rules and regulations call for novel concepts of product design and testing. To address this challenge, utilisation of a holistic, multi-disciplinary and multi-objective design optimization platforms from the earliest design stages in the traditional ship design process are required. In this respect, a very large team of European maritime industry and research partners set out to comprehensively develop the concept of a holistic approach to the optimization of ship design and has been collaborating to implement the approach within the context of the EU Horizon 2020 R&D project dubbed HOLISHIP, or the ‘HOLIstic Optimization of Ship Design and Operation for Life Cycle’. The sketch of global project structure is given below. In addition, a fourth supporting cluster is dedicated to project management and dissemination of the technical results of the work clusters 1 to 3.

Among all 18 work packages (WPs) included within the HOLISHIP framework, WP 4 (leads by University of Liege) addresses structural and functional simulation/optimisation over the life-cycle of ships and maritime structures, in particular, throughout the concept and contract design phases. This leads to a reduced duration of the design process and promote the use of hybrid structures in integrated design loops for optimum producibility and reduced LCC. The objective of WP4 is to develop structural and cost/producibility methods and tools in order to efficiently and effectively serve relevant application cases through HOLISHIP software integration platforms (concept and contract stages), developed in WP7 (CAESES®). In what follows, integrated rule- and FE- based structural assessment/optimisation workflows are shown.

Reference may also be made to http://www.holiship.eu