• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.275-281
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• 2011

One of the major technology issues in the ship production processes is the curved hull forming process that is a bottle neck and performed by experienced workers. In order to automate the curved hull forming process, there are a lot of attempts to develop the automation system by many shipbuilding companies and academic labs. However they have some problems which put the developed system in the difficulties to be used and maintained in the yard. In this paper, the problems are formed and solved by using tailored Systems Engineering Process which consists of four steps, those are requirement definition, system design, implementation of subsystem and components, and system integration and verification. A prototype for the proposed system development methodology is implemented. From the consideration of the prototype implemented, it is verified that this methodology can be an alternative to solve the problems.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.139-146
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• 1994

In this paper a feasible way toward the automation for plate forming by line heating method is proposed. For this a mechanical model representing the line heating phenomenon is adopted and a reasonable algorithm is introduced to search the heating path under the given heating conditions, which can produce the surface very similar to the given surface. A computer program system has been developed according to the proposed algorithm here. It has been applied to two curved shapes to show its validity. From the results it has been found that the proposed algorithm and the developed computer program system give a good result and can be a possible way getting to the automation system of plate forming by the line heating method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.318-322
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• 2002

In this paper the automatic plate forming system developed by the present research group is introduced, which would be helpful for other researchers. The present system consists of three parts : heating line information generation software, automatic heating apparatus and numerical control system. The numerical control system developed by the present authors is detailed. Performance test for the developed system has been carried out and good results has been obtained. As an extension of the present study, the present automatic plate fanning system will be applied to surfaces found in ship and offshore structure.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

This paper deals with the development of an interface program for automatic plate forming, which can exchange information between the heating line information generation program and the automatic heating apparatus. In this paper, the performance of the developed interface program has been verified from the view point of numerical position control. By applying the interface program to the operation of the automatic heating apparatus, an experiment of line heating has been conducted for several steel plate models. Based on the experimental results, a simplified relation to estimate angular distortion has keen derived as a natural characteristic of the present automatic heating apparatus. As a result of the present study, the prototype of the automatic plate forming system has been constructed, and its application to the real surface models found in the ship will be presented in the near future.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 1997

The development of the algorithm and the computer aided marking data generation system based on it should precede the automation system for plate forming by line heating method. This paper places emphasis on the yard simulation for a real surface model to justify the algorithm and the computer aided marking data generation system which have been already developed. The yard simulation has been carried out according to the generated marking data and the heating condition produced by the developed computer aided system. The practical applicability of the developed computer aided system has been conformed by comparing the results of the computer simulation to the results of the yard simulation. This paper ends with the extension of the developed marking data generation system.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.116-127
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• 1999

Line heating is a method widely used in forming ship hull surface. From the viewpoint of mechanics it is large deformation thermal elasto-plastic problem of arbitrary shaped plate. Many researches have been carried out to resolve this problem. Especially, Jang et al.[1] proposed a simplified thermal elasto-plastic analysis method to predict effectively the deformation of plate due to line heating. In this paper, we improved the method of Jang et al.[1] by considering tension yielding in temperature decreasing stage and verified with experimental results. FEA program using MITC4 degenerated shell element was made to deal with elastic large deformation problem. The newly proposed method can be used in the simulation and control of forming hull surface for higher productivity with simplicity and efficiency.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.103-108
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• 2002

Manufacturing the complex surface plates in Stern and Stem is major factor in computing the processing cost of a ship. If these parts are effectively classified, it helps to compute the processing cost and find the way of cut-down on the processing costs. This study is intended to effectively classify surface plates. To solve this problem, we apply Pattern Classification of Neural-Networks.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.128-136
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• 1999

This paper suggests a new object-oriented methodology, ESBD(Evolutionary Simulation Based Design), for the development of an automated manufacturing system in shipbuilding. The target system, AHMS(Automated Hull-piece Manufacturing System), is a virtualized and distributed system controlling the manufacturing processes of storing, surface-pretreatment, cutting, 1st and 2nd curvature generation of material plates. The control and product-flow simulation is applied for the real-time product monitoring and product data management(PDM). The prototype system of AHMS also outlines the layout of the new automated factory.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.81-93
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• 1996

In this paper reviewed are the past studies on the plate forming and introduced is the computer aided marking data generation system which should precede the automation system for plate forming by line heating method. The developed computer aided marking data generation system has been applied to a real surface which is frequently found in the bow and the stern area of a ship. From its application results, the estimated surface by the present marking data generation system is very close to the given surface and the generated marking data also shows reasonably good agreement with those in the real practice in ship yard at present. shows very good agreement. When the marking data generation system has been complemented through more applications to real surface models, then it can be practically used in the real practice in ship yard.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.104-113
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• 1998

The line heating method is a popular technique used to form ship hull in shipyards. In order to promote shipbuilding productivity, some researchers have made progress in their studies on automatic fabrication system for plate forming. These researches have, however, focused on heat-induced plate deformation with particular mechanical modelings, and do not yet propose the heating paths applicable to actual plate forming process. In this paper, a new algorithm to determine heating lines is developed to simulate the line heating process. The important feature of this algorithm is that it calculates principal curvatures of deflection difference surface which represents difference between target surface and surface in fabrication. Several trials to typical surface types show its usefulness and good applicability to tactical use.