Calculation of bearing loads, moments and stresses for shaft alignment on marine propulsion plants.
Troublefree and flexible modeling of the shaft line
Natural frequencies for whirling and axial vibration can be calculated with the extended version of the software.
Control of vibration levels and optimum shaft alignment are necessary on all ships in order to have machinery that operates with the required safety and reliability. The shaft alignment tool can be used in the early design stage or in the operating stage to investigate possible damages due to wrong alignment. The program has several useful features where it is possible to find the exact bearing positions based on traditional verification methods such as jacking or strain gauge measurements.
Shaft alignment, whirling and axial vibration calculations are traditionally regarded as three much separated mathematical problems. Nauticus Shaft Alignment simplified your analysis process by integrating the three mentioned calculation methods into one common user interface and reporting tool.
Nauticus Shaft Alignment provides all necessary results for shaft alignment procedures:
- Several operating conditions can be calculated in one batch
- Calculation of bearing loads
- Calculation of deflections, moments, stresses in both vertical and horizontal plane
- Specialized bearing influence matrix and gap and sag influence matrix
- Open shaft calculation and gap/sag values
- Jacking sequence diagrams
- Jack influence numbers
Benefits
- Alignment, whirling and axial vibration analysis in the same interface
- Effective and easy modeling interface
- Proven solution, mathematical algorithms have been in use since 1990 with continuous enhancements
- Easy data exchange with common Microsoft Office applications or FEM/CAD-applications
- Flexible report generator
- Advanced bearing offset optimization algorithms
- Tailor made results for onboard shaft alignment verification