Maxsurf

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Ship Design, Analysis and Construction

 About Formation Design Systems Key Customers
• Developing ship design software since 1984 • Australia
– Austal Ships, Tenix, Strategic, NQEA, Incat
• Over 1000 marine customers worldwide
Designs
• Distributors in 24 countries • International
• 80% Foreign Sales – Bath Iron Works, FBM, Swiftships

– 20% in Japan – IHI, Mitsui, Sumitomo, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi

– Americas Cup Syndicates
– Foreign language product versions
• Universities
• 90% of Australian market
– Over 100 worldwide
• Head office in Fremantle, Australia – MIT, Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, Tokyo
– UNSW, Curtin, UTS, AMC

• Government
– US Navy & Coast Guard
– Australian Navy
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Recent Projects The Maxsurf Suite

• IHI Japan
– Extensions to Workshop for plate forming
Maxsurf Hydromax
– Link to IHI-Alpha automatic plate forming
Hull, superstructure and Stability and strength
machine appendage Modelling

• Tenix Defence
– 85m Offshore Patrol vessels

• Austal Ships Hullspeed Seakeeper

Resistance prediction Motions prediction
– 126m US Navy LCS ship

Workshop Multiframe Marine

Initial structural design & Structural Analysis
plate development
 Maxsurf - Design
• Hull and superstructure modelling and
fairing
• Interactive real-time fairing &
contouring
• Curvature displays
• Dynamic surface trimming
• Instant hydrostatics
• New Features
– Automation link with Excel
– Rhino link
– Automated trimesh fitting
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Hullspeed - Resistance Prediction
• Industry standard regression methods
• Planing (Savitsky, Lahtiharju)
• General (Holtrop)
• Trawlers and Tugs (van Oortmerssen)
• Cargo (Series 60)
• Yachts (Delft Series)
• New Features
– Slender body theory method
– Free surface wave calculation
Hydromax - Stability
• Intact and damaged stability
• Longitudinal strength
• Hydrostatics
• Limiting KG
• KN, cross curves
• Tank calibrations
• IMO, US and other criteria checks
• New Features
– Advanced parent criteria
– Tanks in compartments
– Automation scripting
– Analysis of existing designs
Seakeeper – Motions Prediction
• MSI, vertical acceleration at specified
locations
• Heave, Pitch and Roll response
• Added resistance
• Visual simulation
• New Features
– Polar Plots, roll motion of catamarans
 Workshop – Preliminary Structure Multiframe Marine
• Longitudinal generation • General purpose structural analysis
• Plate development • 3D frame/beam elements
• Frame generation • 2D or 3D
• Deck generation • Static or dynamic
• Parts database • Section properties calculations
• Export parts to AutoCAD and • Link with Excel for scantling calcs
ShipConstructor
• New Features
– Variable web depths
– Stringer families
– Inverse bending lines
– Shell expansion
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