AVEVA Releases Finite Element Analysis Interface for Shipbuilders

Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - AVEVA announces the
release of AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller, a powerful new
addition to the AVEVA Marine portfolio which accelerates and
simplifies the stress analysis of ship structures.

Ship designers rely on the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
to ensure that hull structures comply with rigorous strength criteria
and achieve low levels of vibration for maximum passenger comfort.
FEA is a computational technique for stress and vibration analysis
which entails the idealisation of a physical structure as a mesh of a
very large number of small elements.

Although the analysis itself is a relatively rapid process,
translating a vessel's hull structure into an idealised mesh in such
a way as to achieve accurate and reliable analysis has long been a
laborious and time-consuming process, which is normally repeated
several times as the design evolves. Finally, it is common to include
a detailed FEA in an approval submission to a classification society
such as Lloyds Register or Bureau Veritas, in order to better
demonstrate a vessel design's structural soundness.

Shipbuilding has now become such a rapid process that the FEA
cycle itself can be the critical-path activity. Timescale pressures
frequently require a shipyard to begin steel cutting before final
design approval has been received, so a design change requirement
from the classification society can result in costly construction
rework.

AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller has been developed in
collaboration with leading shipbuilders to overcome these problems.
It applies sophisticated, rule-based methods to ensure the rapid
idealisation of structures created in AVEVA Hull Structural Design,
to faithfully represent the essential characteristics of the physical
design while ensuring accurate and computationally-efficient analysis
in third-party FEA programs.

Commenting on this important new release, Stephane Neuveglise,
AVEVA's Product Marketing Manager for AVEVA Marine, said: 'This
product meets a widespread demand in the shipbuilding industry, which
must meet stringent international regulations while faced with severe
competitive pressure to achieve ever lower costs and shorter delivery
times.

'AVEVA engineers have worked closely with our collaboration
partners to develop an extremely powerful and easy-to-use application
which is already meeting or exceeding expectations on a number of
different projects. Users have consistently reported achieving 30-50%
reduction in direct man-hours for FEA, as well as valuable gains in
design quality, timescale and avoidance of construction rework.'

AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller is available for immediate
deployment in an AVEVA Marine environment and may be used effectively
on all types of commercial or naval vessel designs, or other floating
structures.

About AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller

It is used with AVEVA Hull Structural Design and exports
idealised meshes either in ANSYS(R) APDL format, or in neutral XML
format for other third-party FEA programs. It combines rule-based
'intelligent' idealisation with extensively user-configurable
parameters for the rapid creation of high-quality meshes. Hull
structures may be idealised in their entirety or as selected blocks,
with coarse or fine meshes, enabling rapid analysis in the early
design stages and more detailed analysis of highly-stressed local
areas as the design progresses.

More information about Hull Finite Element Modeller and other
AVEVA Marine solutions may be found at http://www.aveva.com/marine.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a leading supplier of engineering and design software to
the marine industry; 85% of the world's most productive shipbuilders
employ AVEVA solutions. For more information about AVEVA, please
visit http://www.aveva.com/ednotes.

For further information, please contact:
Alison Patey
Marketing Communications Manager
AVEVA Corporate
Tel: +44-1223-556653
alison.patey@aveva.com

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Contact:
CONTACT: For further information, please contact: Alison Patey,
MarketingCommunications Manager, AVEVA Corporate, Tel:
+44-1223-556653,alison.patey@aveva.com