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Stena Teknik - Design A Ship's Hull Form with Minimum Resistance

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Thanks for looking into our challenge! STENA is always looking for ways to be more environmentally
conscious, and one way to do that is to reduce emissions.

The challenge here is to be more sustainable by designing a ship’s hull form to be less resistant in the water,
and thus reducing our consumption of energy and reducing our emissions to the atmosphere.

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The goal of this challenge is to design a hull form with 16,000 tons of displacement.
What would be the hull design with the least resistance through the water?

Requirements
JUDGING CRITERIA

1. Resistance through water

2. Novelty of design
3. Quality of calculations

SUBMISSION FILE FORMATS

IGES Format
Rendering files
Speed - Resistance calculations & results
Hull surface roughness assumption

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Design speed 20 knots

6.5 meter draft (harbour restrictions)
Length over beam ration less than 8 (L / B < 8)
Bare hull only - to be considered
No propulsor/propeller to be included
Surface ship (not submarine)
16,000 tons of displacement

Rules

ENTERING THE COMPETITION

The Challenge is open to everyone except employees and families of GrabCAD and the Sponsor.
Multiple entries are welcome. Team entries are welcome.

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2. Agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges (Jury).
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uploading to GrabCAD. Please do not edit or delete this tag. Only entries with valid tag will participate
in the Challenge.

AWARDING THE WINNERS

The sum of the Awards is the total gross amount of the reward. The awarded participant is solely liable
for the payment of all taxes, duties and other similar measures if imposed on the reward pursuant to the
legislation of the country of his/her residence, domicile, citizenship, workplace, or any other criterion
of similar nature. Only 1 award per person. Prizes may not be transferred or exchanged. All winners
will be contacted by the GrabCAD staff to get their contact information and any other information
needed to get the prize to them. Payment of cash awards is made through PayPal. All team awards will
be transferred to the member who entered the Challenge.

We will release the finalists before the announcement of the winners to give the Community an
opportunity to share their favorites in the comments, discuss concerns, and allow time for any testing
or analysis by the Jury. The Jury will take the feedback into consideration when picking the winners.

Winning designs will be chosen based on the Rules and Requirements.

This Challenge ends on February 8th, 2019 (17:00 EST.) Finalists will be announced February 15th,
2019, and winners will be announced February 22nd, 2019.

Prizes
$15,000 in Prizes!

1st Place:

$7500

2nd Place:

$5000

3rd Place:

$2500

About the jury?

Stena Teknik

About Stena
Stena believes that sustainable business is long-term business and is based on the group’s common values.
The three main areas within the Stena Sphere are shipping, ferry operations, and offshore drilling. We offer
first class transport and logistics for our customer’s needs. Our Ropax and Roro vessels are an important part
of Europe’s trade, while our fleet of tankers carries oil, gasoline, gas and vegetable oils all over the World.
Stena has 21 ferry routes with some 35 vessels in Northern Europe and Stena Shipping operates some 100
tankers.

Stena Teknik is a common resource for all maritime-related business in the Stena Sphere and has the role of
an expert function primarily in marine technology. Stena Teknik conducts cutting-edge research to meet
future challenges and to increase competitiveness.

18 comments

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Larry V 6 days ago

Can we submit a design with no calculations? :)

Larry V has uploaded 7 CAD models & has left 4 comments.

Winston Jennings 6 days ago

Are there any particular threshold values we should aim for?

Winston Jennings has uploaded 272 CAD models & has left 820 comments.

Patrick Kittler 5 days ago

Sometimes organic/intuitive skills of genius level in design occur in folks who may not have access to
the fluid dynamics software. I do not have this skill, but the sponsor of the competition should accept
designs without full calculations which they can process if they spot obvious skill. A tiny tiny
investment if they ever actually use the design. A great initiative. Thanks

Patrick Kittler has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 1 comments.

Kesa 5 days ago

Larry V the calculations are required for your submission. If you send in a model without it, the model
most likely will not be considered.

Kesa has uploaded 1 CAD models & has left 18 comments.

Ármin Fendrik 5 days ago

Is the 6.5m draft maximum, minimum, or exact?

Ármin Fendrik has uploaded 55 CAD models & has left 106 comments.

Marco QM 5 days ago

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Are there any specific measures to be considered? (width, length, how deep it's supposed to go...)
Also, to those who do not have access to fluid dynamics software, I recommend Autodesk Flow
Design, it's free and easy o use; will not give you any specifics as its not designed for boats but with
the Cd and watching the airflow you'll get a good idea.

Marco QM has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 4 comments.

Nicolas Marc 5 days ago

- 16,000 tons is the total in charge?
- Single hull or multi hull?
- 16,000 tonnes, this represents about a boat about 150 metres long and more, but it will depend on its
use; perhaps we have to respect the specific dimensions of certain types of equipment?
- What type of transport?
- Bow bulb studied and classified for use in ice?
- Are you looking for a hull for a multi-purpose vessel?
- Use for ocean travel only? with occasional coastal traffic?

Nicolas Marc has uploaded 64 CAD models & has left 933 comments.

Per Wimby 4 days ago

6,5m max draft, single hull, RoRo cargo, no ice requirement and short international voyage.

Per Wimby has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 1 comments.

dima78 4 days ago

Создайте подводное крыло с возможностью прилипания (подхода) к килю судна при
прохождении мелководных ( по осадке) русел для подхода к портам.

dima78 has uploaded 11 CAD models & has left 22 comments.

Roger-Marie Couture 3 days ago

I can not wait to see that.

Roger-Marie Couture has uploaded 133 CAD models & has left 694 comments.

Ananth Narayan 3 days ago

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"The goal of this challenge is to design a hull form with 16,000 tons of displacement". I don't
understand with term 16,000 tons displacement. Please clear my doubt anyone.

Ananth Narayan has uploaded 47 CAD models & has left 182 comments.

Sava Savov 3 days ago

@Ananth That means that the mass of the ship is 16 000 tons when the ship is fully loaded and its
underwater volume will be about 16000 m^3. With other words: 16 000 m^3 of water (which is 16000
tons water) are replaced with 16000 m^3 underwater volume of the ship and the mass of all ship (not
just the underwater part) is 16000 tons too.

Sava Savov has uploaded 14 CAD models & has left 26 comments.

bryan grimshaw 2 days ago

Not a bad way of conning people to do all the hard work for a measly $15k. don't Stena employ ships
archetects anymore. and who the hell is going to do all the calcs and hard work for $5k?

bryan grimshaw has uploaded 6 CAD models & has left 15 comments.

Don Blankenship 1 day ago

maybe they are looking for new or another employee.... hmm? why not test the international waters for
new talent?

Don Blankenship has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 1 comments.

j t 1 day ago

Maybe they are looking for new calculation methods, besides it's not that hard to do some calculations.
Either-way i'll wait a while before i submit my entries.

j t has uploaded 2 CAD models & has left 3 comments.

Marco QM 1 day ago

Probably just looking for ideas for the hull, to get a basic shape and then get a well-paid team to fully
develop it...

Marco QM has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 4 comments.

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Husein about 23 hours ago

@Per Wimby Can you give us some rough dimensions of the hull instead draft and beam ratios. We
are not all ship architects :)

Husein has uploaded 11 CAD models & has left 22 comments.

Sumit Goski about 13 hours ago

What is the light weight of the ship ?

Sumit Goski has uploaded 0 CAD models & has left 3 comments.

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Prize

$15,000 in Prizes!

Deadline 19 days
Total entries 3

Who’s in the jury?

Alan Gordon
Innovation Director, Stena Line

Jacob Norrby
Project Manager, Stena Teknik

Per Wimby
Project Manager, Stena Teknik

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