Introduction
Welcome to the Modern
Naval Vessel Design Evaluation Tool website.
The intent of this site is to serve as a repository of information on naval architectural data and tools, for
students and those interested in ship design.
Currently the primary focus of this website is Post WWII
surface warships and Aircraft Carrying type ships, but in the
future I hope to expand to include other additional types of vessels.
Often during early
stage ship design, a naval architect may make use of graphs,
curves, charts, equations and/or algorithims to help estimate
the characteristics of a proposed design. There are many well
regarded naval architectural refefence books, articles, papers, and
theses available which summarize many of these estimation
techniques. However, often there can be multiple different
potential equations or algortithms available for estimating certain
aspects of a design and it is not always easy to
assess which method may be most applicable to a specific type
of vessel.
As
such, an initial primary focus of this website will be to
summarize data that I have collected on modern ship
designs, including such things as;
- prinicple dimensions
- hullform shape
- weights and centers
- available internal area/volume
- resistance and powering information
- stabiity
- seakeeping
- costs
Next, I hope to show how well this data fits some of available estimating technics (such as graphs, curves, charts,
equations and/or algorithms) in order to provide insight to the user on
which estimating technics might best be suited for use when designing a
given ship type.
From this I then hope to develop some simple spreadsheets that will allow a user to;
- estimate suitable principle dimensions based on some top level mission requirements
- a generic hullform for use in early stage design
- vessel component weights and centers
- required internal deck areas and volumes
- resistance and powering requirements
- notional electric load requirements
- fuel, and othe operational loads, requirements
- initial stability and seakeeping characterisitics
- approximate costs
And
finally, I hope to develop an overarching method for tying many of
these tools together to allow a user to attempt to investigate the
design of both existing and conceptual ship designs at a high level to
help assess the potential "feasibility" of a design, based on a user's
input assumptions made.
Disclaimer: I've
collected all the data discussed on these pages from open/public domain
sources over a 34+ year period. Some of the discussion
contained on these pages are my best interpretation of this data and I
hope what I have posted is correct, but I can't guarantee its accuracy,
so please proceed with caution with everything you might see on these
pages.
Notes: This website
has been developed with a number of low cost or free programs including
Hot Metal Pro, KompoZer and Da Button Factory.com
Rev 7-31-22