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Midship section and hull girder strength using a FEA software.

Midship section and hull girder strength using a FEA software.

Midship section and hull girder strength using a FEA software.

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Hello all,

I'm working on my licence project, and I need to dimension a midship section (bottom to main deck) of a passenger vessel of 40 meters long.
I'm working with Lloyd's Registry for Special Service Craft, and their software, to get some preliminary, a base of starting, in order to dimension my structure (bottom shell, side shell, center girder, side girders, frames, decks, etc.)

First, all my 3D modeling skills are based on Rhinoceros. I can export to various software, multiple formats of the geometry.
Anyway, I don't have trouble in the modeling field, using Rhino.

I have varous options: Femap, Ansys, maybe Inventor, and Abaqus (not familiar with it).

I can't afford to use solids (laptop PC), therefore all the structure must be considered as plate elements with thicknesses assigned to various components.

I am a bit familiar with Femap, thou I have trouble starting the analysis due to geometry import (there must be some tricks here, for coincident curves especially). Overall, it's quite a laborious work to get an analysis running.
Therefore, my preferred software will be Ansys (I know how the CDF analysis works) so static structural can't be that hard.

Please let me know any strategies you have in mind to analyse a midship section using plate elements in Ansys (I already have the geometry modeled).

Thank you very much!

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