A complete solution for the life-long strength assessment of floating structures.

Purpose

In addition to the Sesam Floating package, the Sesam FPSO package includes specialized features for FPSO design such as tools for section scantlings and stochastic fatigue in the initial design phase. The package covers in-place, installation, transportation, accidental conditions and operational aspects for FPSOs. The environmental conditions (waves, current, moorings, risers), ballasting and equipments are seamlessly included to create loading conditions for code compliance or in fatigue assessments.

Benefits

This package enables the engineers to perform hydrostatic analysis and check against stability criteria as defined by statutory rules, hydrodynamic analysis to find worst response conditions to be used in mooring analysis or structural strength analysis. For all analysis tasks the same concept model is used with different analysis representation (panel model and finite element model) – in other words only one concept model for all tasks is needed.

The main tools in this package are DeepC, GeniE and HydroD to perform the various tasks. Depending on type of analysis to be performed, these tools are supported by functionality as provided by other Sesam programs.

The package is supported by a workflow modelling tool, Brix Explorer, that comes with pre-defined templates for relevant analysis tasks and allows engineers to make their own templates to capture best engineering practices.

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