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Effective use of composite marine structures: Reducing weight and acquisition cost: Chapter 6
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Safety and Transport, Safety.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7182-0872
2019 (English)In: Marine Composites : Design and Performance  (A volume in Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering) / [ed] Richard Pemberton, John Summerscales and Jasper Graham-Jones, 2019, p. 161-183Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Composite structures are a way to reduce the operational costs of a vessel or to increase its potential revenue. However, depending on the design of the vessel, its operational profile, and the business model of the owner, the benefits brought by a composite structure may not justify its acquisition cost. This paper presents a number of investigations aimed at reducing the acquisition cost of marine composite structures and maximizing their benefits through a more effective use of composite materials (in other words, weight reduction of the composite structure). The investigations cover three areas of opportunity for doing so: material safety factors, material characterization, and numerical optimization of large composite structures. The following conclusions are drawn from the investigations: motivating a reduction of material safety factors through probabilistic analyses is unpractical at best, and questionable at worst; improving the material characterization of textile composites is easy, relatively costless, and can modestly reduce structural weight through better material property values; numerical optimization of large composite structures is cumbersome, but feasible, and holds the greatest potential increasing the economical attractiveness of composite marine structures.

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2019. p. 161-183
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-36338DOI: 10.1016/C2016-0-00710-6ISBN: 9780081022641 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-36338DiVA, id: diva2:1264119
Available from: 2018-11-19 Created: 2018-11-19 Last updated: 2018-11-21Bibliographically approved

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