• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.138-147
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• 2014

This paper proposed an application of expert system to submarine arrangement design. Since all components of the submarine should be placed in a restricted place called pressure hull, expert knowledge has great effects on design of submarine arrangement. In this regard, a suitable knowledge-based expert system shell was applied to design of submarine arrangement process. To use expert system on the design of submarine arrangement effectively, a template model for submarine arrangement, which is proper to use in optimum design process, was developed. The proposed system was applied to simplified example of submarine arrangement problem to choose optimal design alternative. From this study, it was verified that expert system could be used in design of submarine arrangement with effect.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.152-157
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• 2009

In designing and manufacturing a submarine, an expensive real mock up is usually built as a reference because of the spatial constraints of a submarine. This paper presents an integrated and automated design process for a submarine that uses a digital mock up. Various equipment libraries are built for feature based design. Using the developed digital mock up, this paper shows various ways to verify the design, including a space analysis to check for any interference between pieces of equipment and the hull and an ergonomic analysis using lifelike dummies to examine the work space and operability. As a part of the integrated design system, a design automation system was also developed to generate surface point data for the outer hull, pressure hull, casing, and sail. The whole process was applied to the design of a submarine for verification.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.7-14
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• 2013

Because submarine is high-technology and very complex system, it takes a lot of time, cost and manpower for design. For efficient concept design, application of systematic method is required such as system engineering. In this study, we studied application method of MBSE for submarine concept design with SWBS (Ship Work Breakdown Structure). Components of submarine system from SWBS were classified and organized as system architecture with 'Vitech CORE'. Through the MBSE application for concept design, systematic, efficient and traceable concept design of submarine was considered.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.214-222
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• 2012

The shipbuilding process is changing due to changes in the development environment and technological requirements for military ships. This would also hold true for a submarine, because its shipbuilding process includes complicated design and construction conditions. System improvement efforts for the design and construction of military ships have continued with the goal of overcoming these conditions. At present, the Korea Navy is developing a 3,000 ton-class Korean type submarine, and its design is progressing by the introduction of a full 3D-ship CAD system. Although the 3D modeling system was introduced for effective design realization through the introduction of collaborative design and active utilization of M&S (modeling and simulation), the introduction effects are not yet generally obvious, according to the characteristics of ship design. The present paper discusses the collaborative environment for developing a submarine to enhance this. This paper proposes the architecture and data structure of a system for realizing collaborative design and discusses a case system developed on the basis of this.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.442-445
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• 2004

The acoustic target strength (TS) of submarine is associated with its active detection, positioning and classification. That is, the survivability of submarine depends on its target strength. So it should be managed with all possible means. An anechoic coating to existing submarine or changing of curvature can be considered as major measures to reduce the TS of submarine. It is mainly based on the prediction of its TS. Under this circumstances, a study on the more accurate numerical methods becomes big topic for submarine design. In this paper, Kirchhoff approximation method was adopted as a numerical tool for the physical optics region. Secondly, the scaled models of submarine were built and tested in order to verify its performance. Through the comparison, it was found out that the Kirchhoff approximation method could be good design tool for the prediction of TS of submarine.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.62-72
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• 2001

In the countries of USA, UK, etc, which have the advanced submarine design technologies, the digital mockup actively applies in the naval ship and the submarine design, because it has many advantages such as the reduction of shipbuilding periods and costs, the potential of easier design changes, the combination of visualization with realistic behavior and so on. This paper includes the architecture development methods of digital mockup system and presents the S/W and H/W architecture scheme and the methods of 3D CAD modelling system of a submarine hull and machineries for the conceptual design verification.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.3 s.18
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• pp.38-46
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• 2004

This paper deals with the development of simulation model for the horizontal launch at submarines in the preliminary design phase. The simulation model is composed of submarine motion model, cross flow force model in the bow of submarine, and weapon motion model In launch through torpedo tubes. Using submarine and weapon characteristics and simulation condition, it can simulate the exit velocity of weapon through torpedo tubes and reaction forces. It should be helpful for the analysis of the safe launch and design requirements in the preliminary design phase of a submarine or a weapon launched through torpedo tubes.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.51-60
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• 2016

The arrangement design of a submarine has been performed based on data of parent ships and experts' experiences. To support such a task, it is necessary to accumulate and use systematically the data, and to optimize the task. The expert system for the first issue and the optimization method for the latter issue can be used. At this time, a suitable data structure to share the data on the arrangement design of the submarine should be used. In this study, the data structure named an arrangement template model (ATM) is proposed. To check the applicability of the ATM, a prototype program which consists of the expert system and the optimization method is developed. Finally, the developed program is applied to a small submarine of US Navy. As a result, it is confirmed that the ATM can be used to share the data between the expert system and the optimization method.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.116-123
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• 2012

This study aims to analyze the strength of pressure hull of a small submarine. The pressure hull of a submarine has to withstand very large differential pressure between hydrostatic pressure in submarine operating depth and atmospheric pressure in inner space of a submarine. To do that, the pressure hull is generally ring-stiffened cylindrical shell under external pressure. In this situation, there are some foreseeable failure modes of the pressure hull such as shell yielding, axisymmetric shell buckling, asymmetric shell buckling, overall buckling and buckling of end closure. We calculated collapse pressures of these failure modes with approximation and empirical formulas. And, to analyze critical buckling pressure, we performed eigenvalue analysis with finite element method tools.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.3 s.18
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• pp.47-58
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• 2004

This paper focuses on the technical information about the development of the submarine operational effectiveness simulation model for the feasibility study stage of the submarine design. The simulation model is classified into simulation control model and system model. Using user input and related performance parameters, it can simulate various scenarios by no change of the program because it includes tactic manager which makes decision about every situation. And the Monte-Carlo simulation mode which provides the stochastic results is available. Through the test simulation, the usefulness of the simulation model was verified. It should be helpful for the analysis of the submarine operational effectiveness by diversified scenarios in the concept design phase..