VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

AND STATE UNIVERSITY Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0203

AOE 4274 Computer-Based Design of Ship Structures

Project 2 Creating a Typical Module
Begin by copying your one-strake module from Project 1. Go to File / Save As and save it as LastnameProj2.mdl,
where Lastname is your last name. Later, in Project 3, we will copy this module three times in order to make a ship
consisting of four modules. Therefore you should construct a transverse bulkhead made of additional panels (or
quad elements) at the Reference end only (X = 0) and in the Parts Dialog Box, on the Default Values page, you
should omit transverse frames at the Reference end and at the Opposite end.
There are three sets of two vertically aligned pillars. Use additional beams for these.
 10 9 8
Endpoints
Y Z

12000.0000.000
21000.0002400.000
30.0004800.000 6 7
5
42400.0004800.000
53600.0004800.000
63600.0002400.000 11 12
4
73600.0000.000
86000.0000.000
96000.0002400.000
106000.0004800.000
112400.0002400.000
122400.0000.000 3

4 section intervals @ 2500 mm

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Material Properties
Plate Properties
Beam Properties

Plate Thicknesses
Allocation of Plate Properties (Second deck is Property Type 4)

Allocation of Beam Properties

(beam properties 3 and 5 are used for stiffeners)

Stiffener Layout (3 types)