When confronted with design and strength assessment issues outside the traditional domain resort to more advanced methods and technologies are needed

Purpose

When confronted with design and strength assessment issues outside the traditional domain resort to more advanced methods and technologies are needed. Such non-standard problems are typically linked to new and novel designs with no or limited service experience. Examples are application of new material and constructions and complex ship or cargo containment designs (ex. LNG). Other topics are related to accidental incidents such as collisions, groundings or explosions, ice loadings, extreme wave loads and ultimate strength issues in general related to large structural deflections and non-linear material response

Benefits

The Section for Hydrodynamics, Structures and Stability has broad and multi-disciplinary competence within different types of advanced problems. In-depth understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics of complicated problems mixed with long experience and a practical engineering approach ensures high quality services within this field

Features

The consultancy services cover a lot of different topics and require application of different tools and often multi-disciplinary competence. Features which are coped with are

• Ultimate Strength

• Non-linear FE analyses

• Collision and grounding

• Residual strength

• Lightweight structures

• Ice load design

• Repair technology

• Risk Based design

• PULS buckling code

• Gas cargo tank systems

• Rule and guideline development