Evaluation of navy shipboard habitability for a warship design using human model

Abstract

Recently, ergonomic design is a key issue in the warship design. Ergonomie ship design aims to improve the safety and convenience of crew and passengers. In this paper, as a basis of analyzing and evaluating ergonomic design criteria and evaluation methods for a warship, existing military design guidelines and navy criteria in the fields of ergonomics were surveyed. Also, the methodology including an ergonomic human model is introduced. Finally, it is shown that the ergonomics evaluation of a design can be performed at the early stage of warship design using Navy Ergonomic Human Model based on Delmia's ERGO. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.