Engineering Tools
Machinery & Drilling Systems – Basic Software
Carrier HAP -HVAC calculation software
Fluid Flow V3 -Pressure Drop, velocities, heat exchange
PowerTools for Windows - Short circuit, voltage drop, motor start simulations, power flow
Autoplant P&ID - P&ID generation, lists (database)
AutoCad - for any 2D drawing
PDMS - Piping & equipment, escape ways, ductwork and trays, soft volumes, produces 2D drawings as required
Structural analysis Software Sesam
DNV software design package purpose made for finite element analysis, marin applications
FE-Pre-processors
Structural analysis and hydrodynamic analysis
Post-processing
Non-linear structural analysis
Solvia - (Blast, collision etc)
Structural analysis software
Staad-pro, 3-D Beam, Beam element analysis
Genie (DNV software) Beam and shell element analysis
Weight Control/Weight Management
MON - Weight and equipment database with input from Excel
Stability
Autoship/(Model maker)/Autohydro
NVwind - Windloads according to the ABS method
Hydrodynamics
WADAM - 3 dimensional difraction program (motions, air-gap, accelerations)
POSTRESP – Results from WADAM and SESAM
Mooring
MIMOSA - Mooring system analysis in the frequency domain
CASH - Time domain analysis of fully coupled vessel (platform/moorings/risers)
CASHFD - Frequency domain version of CASH
Gmoor_Opt - Mooring optimisation program
DPcalc - Static analysis of dynamically positioned vessel in 3 degr. of freedom (surge/sway/yaw)
Riser Analysis
ORCAFLEX – Time domain riser analysis program
PDMS
GVA can provide PDMS design and administrative services either on global in-house basis or at the client’s location. Our owner KBR is by global measures a very large user of PDMS and can also provide services through GVA.