ANSYS ASAS
Product Features
Offshore Structural Assessment
Modeling
Proven Technology for Design and Analysis of Offshore Structures
Models can be created from ANSYSsoftware
Offshore structure projects today require that design and analysis of are performed efficiently in terms of time and money. Engineering simulation software
must be powerful, fast and easy to use.
Models can be created from FEMGV Extensive data input flexibility using parameters and file merging via @filename
Comprehensive Simulation Capabilities with ANSYS ASAS Technology ANSYS
All data files easily editable Section library for beams
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ASAS
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software provides an integrated facility for performing structuralassessment of most types of offshore structures including jackets, jack-ups, concrete gravity-based platforms, risers, floating productions on storage and
offloading (FPSOs), TLPs, semi-submersibles and, of course, ships. Two packages
are available. ANSYS ASAS software is a general-purpose analysis capability with
linear and nonlinear options including code checks. Model creation can be performed via ANSYS
Freedom releases to permit pin and sliding connections Stiffened plate structure modeling Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems Family of force–equilibrium membranes and shear panels to represent areas in which high shear flows are evident
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software or with FEMGV
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. The ANSYS ASAS Offshorepackage extends ANSYS ASAS to include modules for wave loading,
soil–pile–structure interaction and spectral fatigue due to wave and wind loading.
ANSYS ASAS Offshore is designed primarily for the assessment of framed struc-
tures such as jackets, jack-ups, subsea templates, risers and topsides.
2- and 3-node bars and beams including tubes and box elements with local and global offsets Full range of solid elements including high accuracy 8-node and 20-node bricks, 6- and 15-node wedges, 10-node tetrahedral, and 15- and 20-node laminated elements Low- and high-order shell elements with thick and thin shell formulations Special crack elements and a shell-
brick interface Most elements can be used for field problems (heat transfer, etc.) Isotropic, orthotropic and anisotropic material Units can be modified within the data Pressure loads and accelerations from an ANSYS
® AQWA
™ analysiscan be added automatically Stiffened plate definitions
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