Optimización del diseño holístico de buques: embarcaciones mercantes y navales

The present paper provides a brief introduction to a holistic approach to ship design optimization, defines the generic ship design optimization problem, and demonstrates its solution by using advanced optimization techniques for the computer-aided generation, exploration, and selection of optimal designs. It discusses proposed methods on the basis of some typical ship design optimization problems of cargo and naval ships related to multiple objectives, leading to improved and partly innovative design features with respect to ships’ economy, cargo carrying capacity, safety, survivability, comfort, required powering, environmental protection, or combat strength, as applicable.Este documento brinda una breve introducción a un enfoque holístico a la optimización del diseño de embarcaciones, define el problema genérico de la optimización del diseño de embarcaciones y demuestra su solución mediante el uso de técnicas avanzadas de optimización asistidas por computador para la generación, exploración y selección de diseños óptimos. Discute los métodos propuestos sobre la base de algunos problemas típicos de optimización de diseño de embarcación de buques de carga y navales relacionados a los objetivos múltiples, conllevando a características de diseño mejoradas y parcialmente innovadoras con respecto a la economía de la embarcación, capacidad de carga, seguridad, supervivencia, comodidad, potencia requerida, protección ambiental o fortaleza de combate, como sea aplicable

Proceedings of the Second FAROS Public Workshop, 30th September 2014, Espoo, Finland

FAROS is an EC FP7 funded, three year project to develop an approach to incorporate human factors into Risk-Based Design of ships. The project consortium consists of 12 members including industry, academia and research institutes. The second FAROS Public Workshop was held in Dipoli Congress Centre in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, on the 30th of September 2014. The workshop included keynotes from industry, papers on risk models for aspects such as collision and grounding, fire and the human element, descriptions of parametric ship models and the overall approach being adopted in the FAROS project

Regional timber supply for shipbuilding and maintenance of war fleets in Cadiz: methods, agents and phases (1717-1736)

In the period of 1717-1736, the southern peninsular forests became a new resource frontier at the service of the Spanish Navy, in the context of the Bourbon Reforms. The timber supply for shipbuilding and maintenance of war fleets in Cádiz was made through four methods: direct administration by commissioned services; purchase from regional middlemen merchants; articulation between contractors and direct administration; articulation with the Royal Exchequer. The rhythm of supply was the reflex of different needs and constraints in three phases: maintenance of fleets during the period of consolidation of Cádiz as a naval and commercial center (1717-1727); the first shipbuilding series (1728-1731); the impact of the 30's Mediterranean campaigns and the shipbuilding production of Ciprian Autran (1731-1736).En el periodo de 1717-1736, las forestas del Sur peninsular se convertieron en una nueva fontera de recursos al servicio de la Armada Española, en el contexto de las Reformas Borbónicas. El suministro de madera para la construcción y reparación de flotas de guerra en Cádiz se realizó a través de cuatro métodos: administración directa por comisión de servicios; compra a intermediarios comerciales de la región; articulación entre asentistas y administración directa; articulación con la Real Hacienda. El ritmo de suministro fue el reflejo de diferentes necesidades y restricciones en tres fases: manutención de flotas durante el periodo de consolidación de Cádiz como centro naval y comercial (1717-1727); el primer programa de construcción naval (1728-1731); impacto de las campañas mediterráneas en los años 30 y las construcciones de Ciprian Autran (1731-1736)

Post-Westgate SWAT : C4ISTAR Architectural Framework for Autonomous Network Integrated Multifaceted Warfighting Solutions Version 1.0 : A Peer-Reviewed Monograph

Police SWAT teams and Military Special Forces face mounting pressure and challenges from adversaries that can only be resolved by way of ever more sophisticated inputs into tactical operations. Lethal Autonomy provides constrained military/security forces with a viable option, but only if implementation has got proper empirically supported foundations. Autonomous weapon systems can be designed and developed to conduct ground, air and naval operations. This monograph offers some insights into the challenges of developing legal, reliable and ethical forms of autonomous weapons, that address the gap between Police or Law Enforcement and Military operations that is growing exponentially small. National adversaries are today in many instances hybrid threats, that manifest criminal and military traits, these often require deployment of hybrid-capability autonomous weapons imbued with the capability to taken on both Military and/or Security objectives. The Westgate Terrorist Attack of 21st September 2013 in the Westlands suburb of Nairobi, Kenya is a very clear manifestation of the hybrid combat scenario that required military response and police investigations against a fighting cell of the Somalia based globally networked Al Shabaab terrorist group.Comment: 52 pages, 6 Figures, over 40 references, reviewed by a reade