Thermal forming automation system for curved hull plates in shipbuilding: analysis and design

Forming a curved plate is an essential process for building a ship. The process is currently performed manually, which is a critical bottleneck in shipbuilding. Therefore, there is a need to automate the process. In this paper, a novel process is proposed for automating the manual process. The curre...

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Published inInternational journal of computer integrated manufacturing Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 287 - 297
Main Authors Park, Jungseo, Kim, Daekyung, Hyun, Chungmin, Shin, Jonggye, Ko, Kwang Hee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 03.03.2016
Subjects
automation
curved plate
line heating
shipbuilding
thermal forming
triangle heating
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Summary:Forming a curved plate is an essential process for building a ship. The process is currently performed manually, which is a critical bottleneck in shipbuilding. Therefore, there is a need to automate the process. In this paper, a novel process is proposed for automating the manual process. The current manual process is analysed to identify properties necessary for automation, and technical approaches for automation are presented. The proposed process consists of measurement, shape evaluation and forming, which constructs a loop that produces a curved plate iteratively. The correctness and convergence of the process are verified.
ISSN:0951-192X
1362-3052
DOI:10.1080/0951192X.2015.1033754