...Xuanyi Bian; Yan Lin; Zongran Dong Pipe route design is one of the most complex and time-consuming steps in the ship detailed design. A large number of scholars have studied the optimization of ship pipe routes, but there is still a lack of a fast and effective method for the automatic design...

...Zongran Dong; Yan Lin Pipe routing is one of the most time-consuming and complicated jobs in shipbuilding design. This article presents the automatic ship pipe routing method. To improve the efficiency of single pipe routing, the fixed-length encoding genetic algorithm (GA) is first used...

...Fan Xiaoning; Lin Yan; Ji Zhuoshang Ship pipe routing design (SPRD) that belongs to non-deterministic polynomial (NP)-hard problem concerns minimizing the cost of pipe material while satisfying constraints and avoiding obstacles. Currently, this total solution mainly depends on human experts...

...Sang-Seob Kang; Sehyun Myung; Soon-Hung Han Finding the optimum route of ship pipes is a complicated and time-consuming process. Experience of designers is the main tool in this process. To reduce design man-hours and human errors an expert system shell and a geometric modeling kernel...