Ship Design Laboratory
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING
Postal Address:
Ship
Design Laboratory
Division of Ship Design & Maritime Transport
National Technical University of Athens
9, Heroon Polytechniou
15 773
Zografou - Athens
GREECE
Tel.: 0030 210 772 14 09
0030 210 772 14 16
Fax: 0030 210 772 14 08
Aims
Research and development of the Division of Ship Design and Maritime Transport (SDMT) and the Ship Design Laboratory (SDL) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) concern various disciplines of the concurrent engineering approach to ship and marine vehicles design/operation and the management/logistics/economics of maritime transport.
Relevant activities are reflected through the participation in a large variety of funded national and international (EU funded) research projects and the publication of research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, international conference proceedings and technical reports.
The activities of the Ship Design Laboratory are informally subdivided into the following main scientific areas, namely
- Ship Design, headed by Prof. A. Papanikolaou
- Computer-Aided
Ship Design, headed by Prof. P. Kaklis
(CAD/CAM/CAGD)
Research activities address the following specific subjects:
- Ship design and multi-criteria optimisation
- Development of Advanced Marine Vehicles concepts (mono- and multi-hulls)
- Development of techno- economic ship databases
- Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD)
- Applications of artificial intelligence to ship design
- 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
- In-house software development
- Authorised AutoCAD developers
- Contributions to TRIBON (KCS Systems)
- Surface Design Library (SDL Library
- Development of software tools for ship design and operation
- Conceptual ship design optimisation
- Hull form development
- Resistance and Powering
- Sea-keeping
- Simulation of capsizing
- Simulation of ship evacuation
- Assessment of survivability of merchant and naval ships
- Regulations of ship stability, manoeuvrability and maritime safety
- Support of national and international (IMO, EU) regulatory authorities
- Fundamental studies of ship stability in waves and development of criteria for design and operation
- Formal Safety Assessment of ship design and operation
- Development of rational design/operation criteria for ship safety and controllability of ships in waves and in restricted waters
- Analysis of marine accidents
- Risk-based ship design
- Risk assessment techniques for communication and information exchange
- Technological and human aspects of maritime efficiency and safety
- Techno-economic studies of ship design and operation
- Techno-economic specifications and shipbuilding contract
- Economics of maritime transport
- Logistics of maritime transport
- Management of maritime transport
- Short sea shipping and inland waterway transport
- Coastal passenger and cargo transport
- Intermodal transport
- Port planning and operation
- Marine pollution control and prevention
- Advanced Technologies to enhance shipping activities