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Intelligent Engineering Limited (IE), has developed and patented the Sandwich Plate System (SPS), which integrates a steel-elastomer-steel composite structural laminate in place of conventional stiffened steel plates.
Sandwich Plate System Challenge
A study was commissioned to confirm the feasibility of installing an SPS-based fendering system to protect the side shell structure on an FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel in way of the boat loading area. The existing methodology was to generate cofferdams in the region of ship impact to protect the main hull. This is extremely costly and must be performed in dry dock thus taking the ship out of commission for an extended period and impacting revenue generation. The objective was, by using SPS, to meet the relevant requirements of IMO MARPOL Annex (ship impact) and eliminate the need to install cofferdams in this area, thus maximizing the dead weight capacity of the FPSO, minimizing conversion and life cycle costs of the vessel, reducing inspection and maintenance requirements and creating an inherently safer design both in terms of conclusion and operation.
Sandwich Plate System Solution
SimuTech Group performed the computer simulation of the ship’s collision. This involved the FEA modeling, analyses, and collection of the results. IECAD models were modified with Ansys Design Modeler. Ansys AI* Environment was used to generate the structured mesh. The dynamic simulation was solved with Ansys LS-Dyna. Some pre- and all post-processing operations were done with LS-PrePost. Numerical models were solved on SimuTech Group’s 12-CPU-32-GB-RAM SGI Altix system.
This simulation showed that SPS overlay provides more than three times the energy absorption capacity of the existing steel FPSO before rupture occur. The desired energy absorption response can be achieved by simply increasing the Overlay plate thickness to a reasonable upper limit. ASPS overlay can engage, more effectively, a larger area of the plate to absorb the impact energy. A specific SPS Overlay solution would provide close to 100%.
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