SimFWD: Ship Design Services

SimFWD provides high quality R&D Engineering Services in the field of Ship Design and have created an identity for themselves as reliable and technology oriented FEM consultants in the local and international market.

Listed below is an overview of the range of services for Ship Design:

Conceptual Design

• Lines Plan & 3D Hull-form development
• Preliminary Midship Section / Ship Structural Analysis / Ship Hydrodynamic Analysis
• Intact & Damage Stability
• Speed & Power Calculation
• Hull Form Optimization

Ship Design

Basic Design

• Technical Specification
• Arrangement Plans & Safety Drawings
• Structural Design Analysis
• Piping & Electrical Systems
• Classification & Statutory Drawings & Studies

Detailed Design

• Workshop Drawings
• Material Lists
• Structural foundations of Equipment
• System Drawings (Piping, HVAC,etc.)

SimFWD offers a variety of advanced engineering services listed below:

• Finite Element Analyses: Global & Local Ship Structure Strength Analysis, Global & Local Ship Vibration Analysis, Thermal Analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics: Ship Resistance Calculation, Wake Distribution on Propeller plane, Flow in ventilation ducts & Piping
• Feasibility studies for Ballast Water Treatment&Scrubber Retrofit: Point Cloud processing, Structural Arrangements, Virtual Installation, 3D Piping Arrangements, Class & Workshop Drawings

For more information on our complete range of services for Ship Design, please visit http://www.simfwd.com/services/ship-design

SimFWD: Advanced Engineering Services for Ship Design

SimFWD provides high quality R&D Engineering Services in the field of Ship Design and have created an identity for themselves as reliable and technology orientedFEM consultants in the local and international market.

Ship Design

SimFWD offers a variety of advanced engineering services listed below:

•Finite Element Analyses: Global & Local Ship Structure Strength Analysis, Global & Local Ship Vibration Analysis, Thermal Analysis
•Computational Fluid Dynamics: Ship Resistance Calculation, Wake Distribution on Propeller plane, Flow in ventilation ducts & Piping
•Feasibility studies for Ballast Water Treatment&Scrubber Retrofit: Point Cloud processing, Structural Arrangements, 3D Piping Arrangements, Class & Workshop Drawings

For more information on our complete range of services for Ship Design, please visit http://www.simfwd.com/services/ship-design

SimFWD –Ship Design using Advanced Engineering

SimFWD provides to customers integrated design and engineering services in Maritime / Offshore and Shipbuilding projects of different types and size. Our range of services starts from the concept idea until the ship is put in service and continues through life-cycle service as maintenance, repair and conversion. Listed below is an overview of the range of services for Ship Design:

Conceptual Design
• Lines Plan & 3D Hull-form development
• Preliminary Midship Section / Ship Structural Analysis / Ship Hydrodynamic Analysis
• Intact & Damage Stability
• Speed & Power Calculation
• Hull Form Optimization
Basic Design
• Technical Specification
• Arrangement Plans & Safety Drawings
• Structural Design Analysis
• Piping & Electrical Systems
• Classification & Statutory Drawings & Studies
Detailed Design
• Workshop Drawings
• Material Lists
• Structural foundations of Equipment
• System Drawings (Piping, HVAC,etc.)
SimFWD offers the following advanced engineering services:
 
• Finite Element Analyses: Global & Local Ship Structure Strength Analysis, Global & Local Ship Vibration Analysis, Thermal Analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics: Ship Resistance Calculation, Wake Distribution on Propeller plane, Flow in ventilation ducts & Piping
• Feasibility studies for Ballast Water Treatment&Scrubber Retrofit: Point Cloud processing, Structural Arrangements, 3D Piping Arrangements, Class & Workshop Drawings

CAFE – Tool for rapid Ship Design

SimFWD is a value-added CAE reseller of the following tools in Greece and the Balkans:

•    CAESES
•    CAFE
•    midasNFX
•    FINE™/Marine
•    MAAT Hydro

CAFE is a very powerful ship-modeling tool that offers innovative features that not only ensures faster and easier user interaction but also results in a large time saving for modeling. The CAFE framework supports a wide variety of imports from widely used CAD and CAE software. Following the quick definition of the hull shape, main structural components like transverse and longitudinal bulkheads, double bottom, double hull and decks can be modelled using the innovative functions that CAFE has to offer. Lastly, the user can define Openings and stiffeners with great ease. These structural entities can also be parametric in nature.

CAFE is widely used for the initial stage of the Ship Design process, but apart from this it also offers other functionalities like weight and surface calculations, strength calculation, lighting distribution, cost calculation (including piping and electric installation), etc. Models generated in CAFE can be meshed and the mesh can then be exported in a suitable format to the Finite Element code of the user’s choice. A simple Finite Element Analysis can also be performed within CAFE using the in-built open source OOFEM software adapted for shipbuilding.

We at SimFWD have developed an effective Workflow wherein model creation, definition of basic entities and initial meshing is carried out in CAFE. Mesh refinement, loading and boundary conditions and the final analysis are carried out in midasNFX. Please check the following link for more information: http://en.midasuser.com/training/webinars_read.asp?idx=27300&pg=1&so=&sort=&bid=10&nCat=&nCat2=221&nCat3=&nCat4=&bType=

For more Information about CAFE and other Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools offered by SimFWD, please visit www.simfwd.com/products

Midas NFX – Powerful, Fast & Affordable FEA

SimFWD is the official distributor of  midas NFX in Greece and the surrounding Balkan countries.

midas NFX is an integrated Finite Element Analysis program for structural, Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation and Design Optimization. It provides efficient and accurate analysis together with a high-performance pre-post processor. Within the highly interactive and visual environment, users have total freedom to build, edit, mesh and manipulate FE models. midas NFX provides total solutions from high-end structural analysis functions such as contact, nonlinear, dynamic and fatigue analyses in addition to high-end fluid analysis functions such as moving mesh, free surface analysis and mass transfer analysis.

Users are offered all these functionalities in a reasonably priced single package! Users can harness the power of all cores on the local workstation and even the Graphics Processing Unit without any additional cost.