Ship Design Laboratory
The Ship Design Laboratory (SDL) is part of the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. The was established in 1991 and is operating in the Zografou Campus of NTUA. The Laboratory personnel include academic and research staff, doctoral students, as well as administrative and technical staff. The Ship Design Laboratory is active in both education and research. Its members are offering a series of underground and postgraduate courses and are supervising Diploma and Doctoral Thesis, while their research activity is focused on ship design, computer aided design, ship safety and performance:
Ship Design
• Development of software tools for parametric ship design
• Formal optimization methods in ship design
• Design optimization focusing on sustainable shipping with emphasis on new technologies
• Digital modelling via design digital twins and simulation-based design of ship behavior
• Concepts of Advanced Marine Vehicles (mono- and multi-hulls)
• Hullform optimization
• Development of databases with techno-economic ship data
Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD)
• Applications of Virtual Reality Techniques to ship design and life-cycle modelling
• Applications of Computer-Aided Geometric Modelling (CAGD)
• Curve and surface design & applications to shipbuilding and automotive industries
• Solid modelling and applications to shipbuilding
Ship Safety
• Regulatory framework of ship stability and maritime safety
• Risk-based ship design
• Intact and damage stability assessment / assessment of survivability
• Analysis of marine accidents (causes, consequences, risk analysis, response actions)
• Development of ship-accident databases
Ship Performance
• Performance assessment of innovative technologies (e.g., wind-assisted propulsion, hull air lubrication) from improving energy efficiency
• Operational optimization (e.g., weather routing, hull and propeller bio-fouling assessment)
• Performance assessment of retrofit measures in real ship operation
The Ship Design Laboratory (SDL) is part of the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. The was established in 1991 and is operating in the Zografou Campus of NTUA. The Laboratory personnel include academic and research staff, doctoral students, as well as administrative and technical staff. The Ship Design Laboratory is active in both education and research. Its members are offering a series of underground and postgraduate courses and are supervising Diploma and Doctoral Thesis, while their research activity is focused on ship design, computer aided design, ship safety and performance:
Ship Design
• Development of software tools for parametric ship design
• Formal optimization methods in ship design
• Design optimization focusing on sustainable shipping with emphasis on new technologies
• Digital modelling via design digital twins and simulation-based design of ship behavior
• Concepts of Advanced Marine Vehicles (mono- and multi-hulls)
• Hullform optimization
• Development of databases with techno-economic ship data
Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD)
• Applications of Virtual Reality Techniques to ship design and life-cycle modelling
• Applications of Computer-Aided Geometric Modelling (CAGD)
• Curve and surface design & applications to shipbuilding and automotive industries
• Solid modelling and applications to shipbuilding
Ship Safety
• Regulatory framework of ship stability and maritime safety
• Risk-based ship design
• Intact and damage stability assessment / assessment of survivability
• Analysis of marine accidents (causes, consequences, risk analysis, response actions)
• Development of ship-accident databases
Ship Performance
• Performance assessment of innovative technologies (e.g., wind-assisted propulsion, hull air lubrication) from improving energy efficiency
• Operational optimization (e.g., weather routing, hull and propeller bio-fouling assessment)
• Performance assessment of retrofit measures in real ship operation