Ship power capacity and unit configuration aided design software

  Objectives  Ship power capacity and unit configuration design is the most important basic work in ship electrical design. For improving design efficiency and accuracy, an aided design software is presented based on the extensible architecture via C#.

  Methods   First, we use the plug-in framework to set up the extensible architecture. Then, the key functions such as three calculation methods were integrated, the settings were personalized and an automatic parameter provider was achieved. Then, an optimal model for the unit configuration is proposed.

  Results  The software is validated based on a 4 000 ton class ship. Under the conditions of 7 working states and 42 units, the software can provide 3 solutions within less than one second.

  Conclusions  The one-stop software could help relieve the burden of the traditional design method, and improve the design efficiency of ship power stations.