Abstract
The authors have studied the information system for structural integrity of ships by which reasonable evaluation and advanced maintenance of ship structures are achievable. 1)2)3)4)5) One of the problems to develop such an information system for practical use is the difficulty of generating analysis models for the evaluation of structural strength of ships. In this paper, a new concept for generating analysis models is proposed. Since the generation of an analysis model from the data model in the information system can be regarded as the conversion between these two data models, the mapping technique by using EXPRESS-X language is applied in this study. Based on this concept, simple beam and shell analysis models are proposed and the conversion test is carried out by using the developed mapping schema. The validity of the concept is shown with examples.
