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Picard578
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Sci-fi battleship design

Post by Picard578 » Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:23 pm

I have not done any physics calculations in a long time so I'd like someone to check the figures.

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SHIP CHARACTERISTICS - PRELIMINARY

Length: 1241 m
Speed: 32 light years per hour maximum, 16 light years per hour cruise
0,8 light years per day maximum, 0,27 light years per day cruise with gravitic drive (emergency)

Powerplant
Fusion core: 2 * 200 TW / 47,8 kt/s, 90 m diameter, 27 m height
45.082,28 t of fuel per year at maximum power (top speed, combat)
11.270,57 t of fuel per year at cruise
616.188,52 t fuel capacity (54,67 years cruise, range 7.668.125 ly)
Fission core: 2 * 190 MW

Sensors
Long-range hyperspace scanner
Fire control and identification LADAR
Fire control RADAR
Air warning RADAR
Infrared search and track
Radar warning receiver
Laser warning receiver
Magnetic anomaly detector

Armament:
1 x spinal particle cannon (40.000 km combat range)
1 x spinal kinetic cannon (34.630 km combat range with hyperspace motivator)
4 x laser turrets (200.000 km combat range, 2 million km optics frying)
4 x particle cannon turrets (20.000 km combat range)
8 x 2 PD particle cannon turrets (22.600 km combat range)
1.460 PD lasers (72.200 km combat range) (note: low-cal PD guns * 20)

Aircraft: 32 reconnaissance / fire control UAVs, 64 shuttlecraft

Outer armour: 1.824 mm
Vacuum void: 4.575 mm
Inner armour: 4.272 mm
Turrets: 3.960 mm
Bulkheads: 3.660 mm
Command Center: 912 mm

Spinal particle cannon
96 kt
1 shot every 4 seconds

Spinal kinetic cannon
89,1 kg projectile at 2055,48 km/s
44,99 kt
1 shot every 2 seconds

Laser cannon
96 kt
1 shot / 20 s / turret

Particle cannon turret
4 kt
1 shot every 4 seconds

DESIGN NOTES
[*]large "wings" serve as heat radiators during normal operations
[*]during combat, liquid coolant is used, let out through vents on wings leading edge and collected at the rear if possible (alternatively: nose to aft)
[*]if needed, lithium heat sinks are used, pumped with heat until vaporized and then let out through vents
[*]around 40% of total weight is in armour; armour itself is some 25% more effective than Asquilah counterparts
[*]emergency medical facilities are right next to shuttle bay
[*]point defenses emplacements are Phased Particle Arrays, deployed in strips and capable of firing off-axis, much like Star Trek phasers
[*]command center is deep within ship's hull
[*]hull itself is roughly pyramidal, long and slender to provide maximum thickness of armour to enemy DEWs as well as reflect any kinetics and space debris
[*]observation deck is covered in glass for crew to go stargazing
[*]phased radar arrays on top and bottom of the ship are the main part of the superstructure
[*]ship should fit within oblate spheroid (elongated ellipse in 2D)
[*]calculate exact size of torpedoes from yield, and ship capacity from that
[*]calculate sublight acceleration capability based on mass and reactor output
[*]calculate exact crew from "Starship design"; any extra crew to total number (3.950) fill with marines
[*]10 people to function
[*]10 people per kiloton for sustained operations
[*]12.959.582.657 kg (see below)
[*]crew: 129.600
[*]HMS Dreadnought, 1906: 160,6 m, 18.410 t, crew 810 (5.114 m3 / 22,73 t per crewman)
[*]HMS Vanguard, 1946: 248,2 m, 45.200 t, crew 1.975 (7.742 m3 / 23 t per crewman)
[*]USS Bunker Hull, 1986: 173 m, 9.800 t, crew 400 (12.944 m3 / 24,5 t per crewman)
[*]USS Zumwalt, 2016: 182,9 m, 14.798 t, crew 142 (43.088 m3 / 104 t per crewman)
[*]Vanguard / ISS Aillil Aulom, 2886: 1.241 m, 12.959.582.657 kg (see below)

options:
+1,5 t / crewman / 40 years; 2886 – 1986 = 900 = +33,75 t = 58,25 t / crewman
+79,5 t / crewman / 30 years; 2886 – 2016 = 870 = +2.305,5 t = 2.409,5 t / crewman
crew = 5.378

Ship mass: (based on preliminary design)
Armour:
composition:
[*]titanium alloys (~5,22 g/cm3 / 5.220 kg/m3)
[*]T1: 2.258 MPa tensile strength, bulk modulus 354 GPa,
[*]T2: 4.516 MPa tensile strength, bulk modulus 434 GPa, 2.530 °C melting
[*]Titanium Nitride: melting point 2.930 °C / 3.200 K, thermal conductivity 19,2 W/(m*°C), Young's modulus 590 GPa, modulus of elasticity 251 GPa
note: high Young's modulus means that thick coatings flake away; it is thus applied by spraying
[*]advanced kevlar equivalent (1,4 g/cm3 / 1.400 kg/m3)
[*]boron carbide: 2,52 g/cm3, melting point 3.036 K, elastic modulus 460 GPa, fracture toughness 3,5 MPa m-2
[*]silicon carbide polymorphs: 3,21 g/cm3, melting point 3.100 K, bulk modulus 250 GPa
[*]titanium diboride: 4,52 g/cm3, hardness 35 GPa, melting point 3.500 K, thermal conductivity 120 W m-1 K-1
[*]graphene: tensile strength 130,5 GPa, Young's Modulus 1 GPa, impact force transmission 22,2 km/s, fracture toughness 4 MPa m-2, thermal conductivity 5300 W m-1 K-1, melting point 5.000 K, density 400 kg/m3 (0,4 g/cm3)
[*]layers separated by graphene aerogel (160 g/m3)
[*]high-entropy alloys (HEA): fracture tougness 15 GPa m-2, density 3.000 kg/m3 (3 g/cm3)
[*]covetics:
[*]graphene titanium: density 3,5 g/cm3 / 3.500 kg/m3, tensile strength 108 GPa, fracture tougness 18 GPa m-2, Young's Modulus 1 GPa, impact force transmission 18 km/s, thermal conductivity 5000 W m-1 K-1, melting point 5.000 K

Notes:
vs energy weapons (high priority)
vs kinetic impacts (low priority): high fracture tougness (>50 MPa m-2)

structure:
[*]outer hull armour: 1.824 mm
[*]titanium nitride layer: 24 mm
[*]graphene titanium plate: 500 mm
[*]outer graphene plate: 200 mm
[*]graphene aerogel: 400 mm
[*]inner graphene plate: 200 mm
[*]graphene titanium plate: 500 mm

properties per m2 of plate:

materials volume and weight:
[*]titanium nitride: 24.000 cm3 (125.280 g)
[*]graphene titanium: 1.000.000 cm3 (3.500.000 g)
[*]graphene: 400.000 cm3 (160.000 g)
[*]graphene aerogel: 400.000 cm3 (64 g)
[*]total weight: 3.785.344 g (3.785,34 kg)
[*]fuel capacity: 57.600 kg

inner hull armour: 4.272 mm
[*]graphene titanium plate: 1.000 mm
[*]outer graphene plate: 600 mm
[*]graphene aerogel: 1.000 mm
[*]inner graphene plate: 672 mm
[*]graphene titanium plate: 1.000 mm

properties per m2 of plate: - 10.000 cm2
[*]materials volume and weight:
[*]graphene titanium: 2.000.000 cm3 (7.000.000 g)
[*]graphene: 1.272.000 cm3 (508.800 g)
[*]graphene aerogel: 1.000.000 cm3 (160 g)
[*]total weight: 7.508.960 g (7.508,96 kg)
[*]fuel capacity: 144.000 kg

Fuel tanks
graphene aerogel: 160 g/m3, fuel capacity 144.000 kg/m3, fuel absorption/release 68,8 kg/s; compression capability 90%

Ship structure weight:
Inner armour:
2 * 302 * 122 m (top/bottom)
2 * 302 * 82 m (side)
2 * 122 * 82 m (front)
Total: 143.224 m2 = 1.075.463.287 kg
Liquid capacity: 20.624.256.000 kg
Outer armour:
[*]top/bottom central plate (a): 2 * 202 * 160 m = 64.640 m2
[*]top/bottom triangular plate (b): 2 * 118 * 155 m = 36.580 m2
[*]rear top/bottom plate (f): 2 * (108 sa 22 m) * 142 m = 31.302 m2
[*]rear side plate (g): 2 * (108 sa 20 m) * 100 m = 21.967 m2
[*]rear plate: 118 * 80 m = 9.440 m2
[*]wing rear plate (c): 2 * (132 sa 60 m = 145 m) * 38 m + 4 * (132 sa 60 m) * 140 m + 2 * (132 sa 60 m) * 22 m = 98.600 m2
[*]wing forward plate (d): 2 * 20 * (132 sa 60 m = 145 m) + 4 * 135 m * (118 sa 80 m = 142 m) = 82.480 m2
[*]forward plate (e): 2 * 815 m * (120 m sa 30 m prosj = 124 m) = 202.120 m2
Total: 547.129 m2 = 4.108.369.776 kg
Liquid capacity: 31.514.630.400 kg

Ship mass:
[*]Armour mass: 5.183.833.063 kg
[*]Armour as portion of total mass: 40% (from HMS Vanguard)
[*]Total mass: 12.959.582.657 kg

Total mass estimates by size comparison with other vessels:
[*]HMS Vanguard: 5.650.000.000 kg
[*]Astute class submarine: 15.496.437.000 kg (armour: 33,45% of weight)

Volume estimate:
[*]engine section (f): [(118 * 160) + (78 * 118)] / 2 * 108 = 1.516.536 m3
[*]rectangular central section (a): 202 * 160 * 120 m = 3.878.400 m3
[*]triangular central section (b): (118 * 155 m) / 2 * 120 m = 1.097.400 m3
[*]wings, main (c): 120 * 132 * (avg 200 / 144) = 120 * 132 * 172 = 2.724.480 m3
[*]wings, forward (d): 127 m height, 165 m avg depth, 190 m avg length = 127 * 165 * 190 = 3.981.450 m3
[*]nose: 758 m avg length, 260 m base width, 110 m base height = (260 * 110 * 758) / 3 = 7.226.226 m3
Total volume: 20.424.492 m3
Density: 634,5 kg/m3

Power requirements
[*]Power production: 400 TW

Hover (atmosphere)
[*]F = ma
[*]F = 12.959.582.657 kg * 9,81 m/s^2
[*]F = 127.090.091.263,26905 N = 127,09 GW
Conclusion: achievable

Ascent (atmosphere)
[*]9,81 J to lift 1 kg by 1 m
[*]127.133.505.865,17 W / 127,134 GW for 1 m/s ascent
[*]400 TW = 3.146,3 m/s ascent theoretical (1.500 m/s in practice)

Acceleration:
[*]Ship mass: 12.959.582.657 kg
normal acceleration
[*]250 TW propulsion (0,5 mv^2) = 250 TN m/s (1 W = 1 N m/s)
[*]acceleration: 19.290,74 m/s^2
[*]in 60 seconds: 1.157.445 m/s
combat acceleration
[*]125 TW engines (125 TW shields, 125 TW weapons)
[*]acceleration: 9.465,37 m/s^2
[*]in 60 seconds: 578.722 m/s

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Re: Sci-fi battleship design

Post by Sideswipe » Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:12 am

I am imagining the basic shape of the ship looks like this. I haven't added any of the weapons yet.

Image

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Re: Sci-fi battleship design

Post by Picard578 » Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:03 am

Sideswipe wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:12 am
I am imagining the basic shape of the ship looks like this. I haven't added any of the weapons yet.

Image
Close. This is my preliminary design; had I known you would do a 3D I would have posted it right away:

https://image.ibb.co/cj6P9z/preliminary.png

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Re: Sci-fi battleship design

Post by Sideswipe » Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:58 pm

Picard578 wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:03 am
Close. This is my preliminary design; had I known you would do a 3D I would have posted it right away:

https://image.ibb.co/cj6P9z/preliminary.png
Nice. I didn't want to go too Star Destroyery.

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Re: Sci-fi battleship design

Post by Picard578 » Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:28 pm

Sideswipe wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:58 pm
Picard578 wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:03 am
Close. This is my preliminary design; had I known you would do a 3D I would have posted it right away:

https://image.ibb.co/cj6P9z/preliminary.png
Nice. I didn't want to go too Star Destroyery.
Similar problems, similar solutions. I wanted to have something that would a) defend against weapons fire from front while not completely ignoring attacks from other vectors, b) defend against space debris and such, c) allow surface for heat emissions and d) keep the overall shape still relatively simple. Plus, I have to admit that I actually like Star Destroyer design, especially Republic variant of it, so there might have been some subconscious influence as well although I was not (consciously) aiming for a Star Destroyer look. :-)

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