Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Methods for Ship Design

Modern ship design is required to provide the optimal design.Multidisciplinary Design Optimization(MDO) method is one of the widely applied design methods for complex engineering systems.In this paper,an overview of MDO study at CSSRC is presented.iSIGHT is used to inte-grate the modules of CGX design of Virginia Tech to demonstrate the application of MDO in ship design.The modules of CGX are also used to demonstrate a new subsystem division concept.Final-ly,the general content of MDO in ship design is summarized.