Maritime Platforms

Maritime Platforms at the centre of this program include primarily surface ships and submarines.

Projects under this program focus on:

• Examining structural integrity and fitness for surface and submarine components
• Electromagnetic shielding
• Structural health monitoring systems
• Optimum application technology for rebuilding and enhancing erosion-corrosion performance of critical metallic components

Program Benefits:

• New alloys to increase steel strength
• Improvements in sea-keeping stability and payload
• Reduction in the number of vertical joints in outer hull structures
• Cost-effective component reclamation
• Improved service performance and increased sea-time
• Robotic manipulation for repair of complex-shaped components
• Enhanced mechanical properties and improved fatigue and corrosion resistance
• Embedded health monitoring systems for continual assessment and through-life support
• Use of new repair technologies that are internationally competitive
• Building the whole-of-supply-chain for delivery of manufacturing technologies