NSTL organises ship design workshop to promote self-reliance

Director General (Naval Systems & Materials), DRDO, R.V. Hara Prasad, highlighted the pivotal relation of indigenous vessel plan and innovation successful achieving atmanirbhar successful naval systems. He emphasised the request to integrate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) tools, Digital Twin concepts, meta-materials, and precocious stealth plan techniques into aboriginal vessel plan processes.

The DG (NS & M) inaugurated a Ship Design Workshop, organised by the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) to beforehand self-reliance and to fortify indigenous vessel plan ecosystem with the nonsubjective of strengthening India’s indigenous vessel plan capabilities and fostering collaboration among stakeholders from the Indian Navy, Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), backstage shipyards, classification societies, and academia.

Rear Admiral Sujit Baxi, Director General (Warship Design Bureau), Abraham Varughese, Director NSTL, Cmde (Retd.) Girideep Singh, CMD Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), D. Radha Krishna, Group Director (Warship Technologies), P.C. Praveen, Technology Director (Hydrodynamics Research) and M. Nageswara Rao, Chairman SDW-25 participated successful the inaugural session.

Senior officers from the Indian Navy, representatives from Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSUs), backstage shipyards, classification societies, plan houses and world & probe institutions attended the workshop.

Mr. Hara Prasad stressed connected the increasing value of greenish shipping technologies, energy-efficient propulsion systems, and sustainable materials to align naval plan with planetary biology and operational standards. He highlighted that realisation of ample cavitation passageway installation was presently successful the pipeline. NSTL was offering each the trial facilities to manufacture and world institutions connected request basis. He besides shared his imaginativeness for NSTL to germinate arsenic an planetary person successful vessel exemplary investigating and evaluation, comparable with starring overseas hydrodynamic probe facilities.

Mr. Hara Prasad emphasised the request for collaborative efforts crossed design, testing, and validation domains to marque India self-reliant and globally competitory successful precocious vessel plan and hydrodynamic & stealth research.

Addressing the gathering, Rear Admiral Sujit Baxi commended DG (NS&M) and Director NSTL for taking the inaugural successful bringing unneurotic each cardinal stakeholders successful the nationalist vessel plan ecosystem connected a communal platform.

In his invited address, Mr. Abraham Varughese outlined the laboratory’s contributions successful underwater systems, vessel hydrodynamics, and stealth technologies. He noted that the store provided a unsocial level for dialog betwixt designers, shipbuilders, classification societies, and academia to place areas for associated R&D and technological innovation.

The store featured method sessions covering capabilities of NSTL successful the tract of hydrodynamics and stealth technologies, Demonstration of facilities precocious velocity towing tank, seakeeping and manoeuvring basin, cavitation tunnel, exemplary manufacturing facility, upwind tunnel, stealth and biology trial facilities.