• A design methodology for resilience in fleets for service operations 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Chapter, 2016)
      In this paper, we present a new conceptual design methodology for increasing the resilience in complex operations involving a fleet of ships. The objective of the methodology is to support design decisions to reduce ...
    • Addressing the Coast Guard Fleet Mix Problem From a Value-Centric Perspective 

      Buland, Marius Oddmund (Master thesis, 2017)
      The decision to acquire a fleet of coast guard vessels is typically irreversible and of longterm impact. Once vessels are bought and built, they typically remain within the fleet for a few decades. This emphasizes the ...
    • Assessing flexible offshore construction vessel designs combining real options and epoch-era analysis 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Erikstad, Stein Ove (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Recent events in offshore oil and gas markets show the need for elaborate treatments of uncertainty throughout the design process and lifecycle management of maritime engineering systems. Offshore construction vessels are ...
    • Assessing the Vulnerability of Supply Chains: Advances from Engineering Systems 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Chapter, 2019)
      Vulnerability assessments focus on extended sets of hazards and threats, and seek to ensure that adequate resources exist to restore system functionality to a stable level within a reasonable amount of time. Multiple ...
    • Combining design and strategy in offshore shipping 

      Strøm, Morten Andreas; Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil; Brett, Per Olaf (Chapter, 2018)
      This paper presents the design-strategy planning (DSP) procedure as a framework that integrates life cycle strategies of a ship into the early stages of the design process. We argue that understanding strategic, tactical, ...
    • Design for resilience: Using latent capabilities to handle disruptions facing marine systems 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Brett, Per Olaf (Chapter, 2018)
      This paper explores how the resilience of marine systems against disturbances can be improved by considering latent capabilities. With resilience is meant the ability of a system to recover and return to an acceptable, ...
    • Designing Flexible Offshore Construction Vessels to Handle Future Uncertainty 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim (Master thesis, 2015)
      This thesis investigates how uncertainty in marine systems design can be handled through designing more flexible vessels. For multi-functional vessels not mainly doing transportation tasks, such as offshore construction ...
    • Designing Resilience into Service Supply Chains: A Conceptual Methodology 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil; Erikstad, Stein Ove (Chapter, 2018)
      This chapter presents a methodology for designing resilient service supply chains. The approach combines system design methods with methods from risk assessment. Service supply chains consist of multiple assets, cooperating ...
    • Designing resilient fleets for maritime emergency response operations 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Chapter, 2016)
      In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing resilience into a fleet for maritime emergency response operations. A broad set of events can trigger emergency response, requiring that a fleet of vessels for this ...
    • Early Stage Decisions in Marine Systems Design for Deep-Sea Mining 

      Solheim, Astrid Vamråk; Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Agis, Jose Jorge Garcia; Brett, Per Olaf; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article studies the prospects for deep seabed mining as a future viable maritime industry, and discuss the commercial, operational, and technical viability of deep seabed mining. By the use of a business development ...
    • Evaluating fleet effectiveness in tactical emergency response missions using a maximal covering formulation 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Fagerholt, Kjetil; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This paper concerns the evaluation of alternative fleets of advanced special vessels, like coast guard or emergency response and rescue vessels. The paper proposes a mathematical programming formulation of the Fleet ...
    • Evaluation of new design concept of submerged fish farm 

      Glestad, Ingrid Elisabeth (Master thesis, 2019)
      Akvakulturen opplever en rask utvikling mot nye design av oppdrettsanlegg som kan plasseres i mer eksponerte farvann og tåle et tøffere klima. De nye designene for akvakulturen tar sikte på å løse problemene rundt lakselusen, ...
    • Exploiting latent functional capabilities for resilience in design of engineering systems 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this paper, we address latent functional capabilities, capabilities that were neither intended nor recognized in the design process. We propose that latent capabilities can improve the resilience of engineering systems, ...
    • Handling Commercial, Operational and Technical Uncertainty in Early Stage Offshore Ship Design 

      Garcia Agis, Jose Jorge; Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Ebrahimi, Ali (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In this paper, we assess state-of-the-art methods for handling aspects of technical, commercial and operational uncertainty in the early stages of offshore ship design. Uncertainty affects the lifecycle performance of a ...
    • Ill-Structured Commercial Ship Design Problems: The Responsive System Comparison Method on an Offshore Vessel Case 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Garcia Agis, Jose Jorge; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Brett, Per Olaf; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil; Ross, Adam M.; Rhodes, Donna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this paper, we address difficulties in ill-structured ship design problems. We focus on issues related to evaluation of commercial system performance, involving perceptions of value, risk, and time, to better understand ...
    • Investigating feasibility of flexible ship concepts using tradespace network formulations 

      Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Chapter, 2016)
      In this paper, we investigate the technical feasibility of flexible offshore ship design concepts with respect to retrofits. Flexibility is intended to improve performance, but there are often complex system interactions ...
    • Investigating tradeoffs between performance, cost and flexibility for reconfigurable offshore ships 

      Rehn, Carl Fredrik; Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim; Erikstad, Stein Ove; Asbjørnslett, Bjørn Egil (Journal article, 2018)
      This paper investigates tradeoffs between technical performance, cost and flexibility level for reconfigurable offshore ships. An offshore ship can be configured with various types of equipment; thus, its base structure ...
    • Redefining the service vessel fleet size and mix problem using tradespace methods 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim (Chapter, 2017)
      Purpose This paper addresses the problem of designing a fleet of service vessels to cooperate towards performing a set of operations under operation demand uncertainty. Emphasis is put on identification of compromises ...
    • Resilience by Latent Capabilities in Marine Systems 

      Pettersen, Sigurd Solheim (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:394, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      This thesis addresses the need for resilience, the ability of a system to recover from a disruption, in marine systems. It proposes to enhance resilience in the operational phase by taking advantage of latent capabilities, ...