Applicability of Virtual Prototyping Techniques
to simulate a Launching Process
Matteo Codda, Riccardo Necrisi
CETENA S.p.A.
Via Ippolito D’Aste, 5
16121 Genova, Italy
e-mail: matteo.codda@cetena.it, riccardo.necrisi@cetena.it
Marco Raffa, Daniele D’Eugenio
Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A.
Via Cipro, 11
16129 Genova, Italy
email: marco.raffa@fincantieri.it, daniele.deugenio@fincantieri.it
ABSTRACT
Virtual prototyping technology is giving rise to interest in shipbuilding environment: this powerful tool can lead to large design improvements with no need to build anything physical, thus saving money and time.
Developed applications can simulate a wide variety of operations, such as ship in harbour, interoperability among vessels, landing of air vehicles, rescue operations; besides, any simulation may consider various weather conditions and may be performed in a networked configuration. It is quite clear how these simulated processes can support many different design requirements.
In this paper it is described how Fincantieri and CETENA have developed simulations of several problems regarding the launching process that is an important aspect in the ship construction and is a typical problem that can be analyzed only trough a simulation.
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