212 SCIA User Contest 2007 • Category 5 • CAE Special Projects CAE Special Projects 5 Saltwater Engineering B.V. Address Ter Steeghe Ring 101 • 3331 LX Zwijndrecht (NL) Telephone +31 78-674-4811 Fax +31 78-674-4432 Contact Mr Ing. Mike Stelzer Email [email protected] Website www.saltwater.nl Naval architecture and engineering Saltwater Engineering BV is an engineering partner for companies working in the shipbuilding and maritime sectors. The shipbuilding and maritime sectors, like most other sectors, are being put more and more under pressure to shorten delivery times of the end product. Saltwater Engineering offers fast and flexible engineering solutions in all fields of naval architecture, which can help to speed up the engineering process and subsequently shorten delivery times. Saltwater Engineering offers solutions from initial design all the way through the building process and final delivery of a vessel or marine product. Key activities • Vessel design from initial design to delivery • Offshore structures • Design and engineering for both new and refits of luxury yachts • Determination of scantlings for vessels and floating objects that fall under the major international classification societies • Global strength calculations of vessels and steel structures • Local strength calculations of steel structures • Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics of vessels and floating objects • Drafting of both general construction and workshop drawings • Technical advise and “second opinions” • Project management Organizational structure The company is a partnership between four highly experienced and motivated naval architects. Together the four partners have more than 40 years of experience in the field of naval architecture. A majority of these years has been comprised in the areas of project management and/or co-ordination with both experience in engineering and design offices as well as on shipyards. Target groups Our target groups include all shipyards and engineering firms working in the general field of the shipbuilding industry. Due to the current market situation the majority of or works is centred on the yacht building and offshore industry. Yacht on transport cradles The aim of this project was to prove that the internal structure of a luxury yacht would be strong enough to support the cradle forces exerted on the yacht as it was transported out of the production hall and on to the ship lift. The main concern in this case was that usually the cradles are placed directly under transverse bulkheads of the vessel; in this case however, the forward cradles would have to be placed between the bulkheads to facilitate access to the ship lift. This resulted in a large force being introduced into the vessel on a very local scale if compared to the normal situation of the vessel being afloat in water. The calculation covers all stresses occurring in the structure due to the introduced cradle load. Yacht on transport cradles Used software • SCIA•ESA PT
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