Abstract
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (IHI) has successfully employed the logic of the Finite Element Method on the principle of Thermal Forming or Line Heating, which facilitates use of computer aided, fully automated line heating machines for forming any curvature precisely and efficiently on a hull steel plate in the shipbuilding process. It is undesirable for the future in line heating that only an experienced technician is able to be skilled in the use of existing line heating f1 or steel plate forming. Accuracy of shape formed by existing line heating is not necessarily well controlled and work at succeeding stages is adversely affected by inaccurate interim products, though it is a very useful method informing steel plates and all apparatus required for line heating is just light tools. The IHI-Advanced Line-heating Process for Hull-steel Assembly (IHI-ALPHA) has succeeded in solving these problems.
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