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Methods for Naval Ship Concept Exploration Interfacing Model Center and ASSET with Machinery System Tools

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dc.contributor.authorStrock, Justin Williamen
dc.contributor.committeechairBrown, Alan J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMcCue-Weil, Leigh S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNeu, Wayne L.en
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace and Ocean Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:37:45Zen
dc.date.adate2008-06-24en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:37:45Zen
dc.date.issued2008-04-24en
dc.date.rdate2010-12-22en
dc.date.sdate2008-05-20en
dc.description.abstractIn response to the Fiscal Year 2006 National Defense Authorization Act, the US Navy conducted an evaluation of alternative propulsion methods for surface combatants and amphibious warfare ships. The study looked at current and future propulsion technology and propulsion alternatives for these three sizes of warships. In their analysis they developed 23 ship concepts, only 7 of which were variants of medium size surface combatants (MSC,21,000-26,000 MT). The report to Congress was based on a cost analysis and operational effectiveness analysis of these variants. The conclusions drawn were only based on the ship variants they developed and not on a representative sample of the feasible, non-dominated designs in the design space. This thesis revisits the Alternative Propulsion Study results for a MSC, which were constrained by the inability of the Navy's design tools to adequately search the full design space. This thesis will also assess automated methods to improve the APS approach, and examine a range of power generation alternatives using realistic operational profiles and requirements to develop a notional medium surface combatant (CGXBMD). It is essential to base conclusions on the non-dominated design space, and this new approach will use a multi-objective optimization to find non-dominated designs in the specified design space and use new visualization tools to assess the characteristics of these designs. This automated approach and new tools are evaluated in the context of the revisited study.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05202008-220630en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202008-220630/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33036en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartStrock_Thesis_V4.3.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectASSETen
dc.subjectModel Centeren
dc.subjectOptimizationen
dc.titleMethods for Naval Ship Concept Exploration Interfacing Model Center and ASSET with Machinery System Toolsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineAerospace and Ocean Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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