Ship Building in Miniature

Asbestos and Ship-Building: Fatal Consequences

The severe bombing of Belfast in 1941 had far-reaching consequences. Harland and Wolff was crippled. The British Merchant Ship Building Mission to the U.S.A. was being constrained by the U.K. treasury. On being told of the Belfast destruction, the British Mission and the United States Maritime Commission were emboldened. The result was 2,710 Liberty Ships launched to a British design. The neces...

Application of a DoDAF Total-Ship System Architecture in Building Naval Ship Operational Effectiveness Models

The Naval Ship Design Concept and Requirements Exploration (C&RE) process used at Virginia Tech is based on a Multi-Objective Optimization approach that explores the design space to produce a Non-Dominated set of ship design solutions ranked by cost, risk, and effectiveness. The current method of calculating an Overall Measure of Effectiveness (OMOE) used in this process is based on expert opin...

Model-Based Tracking Initialization in Ship Building Environment

Social Learning in Insects — From Miniature Brains to Consensus Building

Communication and learning from each other are part of the success of insect societies. Here, we review a spectrum of social information usage in insects--from inadvertently provided cues to signals shaped by selection specifically for information transfer. We pinpoint the sensory modalities involved and, in some cases, quantify the adaptive benefits. Well substantiated cases of social learning...

Design of an Accuracy Control System in Ship Building Industry

Accuracy Control System (ACS) in shipbuilding industries is proven to improve quality of product along with reduction in rework, production time and performance of finished product. This concept had been implemented in many shipyards worldwide especially in USA, Japan, and Europe. The present study deals with one of the leading shipyards in India. A Pilot study on the initial implementation of ...