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Concept Design

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Design of submersibles; Design spiral; Detailed design; Empirical design; Hydrodynamic design; Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO); Optimal design; Preliminary design; Reliability based design (RBD); Structural design; Technical design

Definition

Concept design is the first part of basic design, followed by preliminary design. It turns the mission requirements into the characteristics of the systems, developing two or more design alternatives from which a design is selected in accordance with specified criteria.

Scientific Fundamentals

Concept design is the first part of basic design, followed by preliminary design. In general, according to E. E. Allmendinger (1990), it often involves the following stages:

  1. 1.

    Development of performance requirements, or system capabilities, from the mission requirements.

  2. 2.

    Determination of the principal characteristics of the systems required to achieve these capabilities, which enable new construction systems to be designed and...

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Min Zhao

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  1. Hadal Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

    Weicheng Cui

  2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China

    Shixiao Fu

  3. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University , Newcastle, UK

    Zhiqiang Hu

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  1. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

    Weicheng Cui

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Zhao, M. (2019). Concept Design. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_59-1

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