AQWA & ASAS Product

Updates for ANSYS 13.0

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Contents
AQWA & ASAS Overview
Products and Applications Areas
Product Roadmap
Release 13.0 Update
Outlook

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AQWA & ASAS Overview

- Main Application Areas
Images courtesy of Arup, Moss Maritime AS, Technip Offshore Finland and REpower Systems AG

Offshore Structures
Fixed
Steel Jackets
Concrete
Compliant
Jack-ups
Floating

FPSOs
SPARS
Semi-Submersibles
Tension Leg Platforms

Risers
Offshore Wind Turbines

Harbours
Ships
Design
Offloading
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Offshore Products
- How they fit with ANSYS portfolio

General Products:
Design Modeler
ANSYS Mechanical

CFX/FLUENT
Vertical Applications:
AQWA
ASAS

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Offshore Products
- AQWA

Comprehensive Hydrodynamic capabilities

Diffraction/Radiation including Morison elements
Frequency Domain analysis
Stability including mooring lines
Time domain with irregular waves
Time domain with non-linear survival waves
Coupled Cable Dynamics
Multiple hydrodynamic interaction and
articulations (up to 50 structures)
Transfer of motions and Pressures to ASAS &
ANSYS FE models
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AQWA
- Typical Applications

Some example applications

Jacket Launch

Courtesy of Gusto MSC

FPSO & TLP Concept

Offloading Operation

Courtesy of SBM

Vessel Loading Transfer from

AQWA to Mechanical
Development and Validation
of Octabuoy Concept
Courtesy of Moss Maritime AS

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Courtesy of Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam

Shielding

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Offshore Products
- ASAS

FE based offshore structural analysis suite

Mainly used in global design analysis
Unique post-analysis assessment tools specific to
offshore requirements

Some key features

Coupled wave-structure interaction with regular/irregular
waves
Coupled hydro-elastic analysis for tubular framed
structures
Wave loading and added mass for jackets and similar
structures
Spectral and deterministic fatigue of jackets
Toolkit to facilitate user software integration
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ASAS
- Typical Applications

Some example applications

Offshore Wind Turbines

Courtesy of Fraunhofer CWMT

Jacket Structures

Tidal Turbine Structure

Transportation of Spar Truss on Heavy Lift Vessel

Courtesy of Technip Offshore Finland
Courtesy of REpower Systems AG

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Product Roadmap
- AQWA
Migration of AQWA to Workbench
AQWA unique in ANSYS
Provides parameterization and interfacing/coupling
with other tools/products (geometry, meshing, solvers)

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Product Roadmap
- ASAS
Transfer of ASAS unique solver technology to ANSYS
Structural Mechanics products
Never any long term scope for developing/supporting
multiple FE products
Recognition of ASAS key features
Creation of a Design Assessment system to handle
post-processing of analysis results
For offshore, this covers load case combinations and
code checking
Additional Products
Separate Code Checking and Fatigue Products

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Offshore Products at R13

- Feature Summary

AQWA
AQWA in Workbench
AQWA Core Developments
ASAS to Mechanical
Beam Modeling
Wave theories
Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction
Design Assessment
New Design Assessment system in
Mechanical
Additional code checking products
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AQWA in Workbench
- Hydrodynamic Diffraction System

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AQWA in Workbench
- Hydrodynamic Diffraction System
Initial implementation at 12.1
Extended to cover most of AQWA
Diffraction product
AQWA LINE now fully reproduced
in the HD system (including recent
core enhancement enabling
mooring line representation)
New QTF and SF/BM Graphs
AQWA WAVE capabilities to
transfer pressures etc to
Mechanical not implemented in
WB but the capability does exist
and is documented
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AQWA in Workbench
- Hydrodynamic Time Response System

New Hydrodynamic Time Response Analysis

System
Time history analysis of bodies, subject to
environmental forces including mooring lines

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AQWA in Workbench
- Hydrodynamic Time Response System
Input for the following
completed:
Cable connections for rigid body
motion, wave and mooring line
analysis under various ocean
environments
Ocean Environment Definition
for Wind, Wave and Current
Additional Structure Force Time
History
Cable Winching and Failures
Input of catenary mooring lines
Realistic viewing of mooring
lines
Graphing of various results
Displacement, velocity,
acceleration
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AQWA in Workbench
- Hydrodynamic Time Response System

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AQWA Core Developments

Cable Dynamics
Bending stiffness allows modeling of rigid and flexible
risers (previously only rigid risers could be modeled using
tethers)
Non-linear axial stiffness to enable more rigorous
modeling of synthetic moorings. Uses polynomial
definition of tension v extension.

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AQWA Core Developments

User-defined stiffness matrix connecting separate
ships
This enables mooring system to be included in
diffraction/radiation analysis
Response spectra available for any specified position
on ship (previously limited to CoG)
Response spectra available for intermediate
positions (connection points) along mooring lines
ISO wind spectrum definition added for dynamic
motions analysis

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AQWA Core Developments

AQWA Graphical
Supervisor (AGS) now able
to present/animate cable
dynamics results from
intermediate positions
along mooring lines
Based on analysis results
or separately defined
boundary conditions

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ASAS to Mechanical
- Beams and Wave Theories
Beam Post-Processing
enhancements
Shear Force and Bending
Moment diagrams
Beam End-Releases
Wave Theories
Irregular waves
Shell New Wave
Constrained Wave

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ASAS to Mechanical
- Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction
Soil/Pile Interaction Solver (SPLINTER) enhanced to
work with Mechanical (via command snippets &
Matrix27 elements)
PILEGEN and PILECALC macros included with the
ASAS installation (capability only available via ASAS
Offshore license)

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Design Assessment
- New System in Workbench

Design Assessment System

Available with Professional NLS and above
Post-analysis assessments of FEA results
Load Case Combinations
Static Structural
Flexible Dynamics (at a specific time)

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Design Assessment
- Customization

Design Assessment System

Advanced post-processing of FEA results
Targeted at user wanting to do design code
assessment based on FEA models and results

Predefined scripts supplied for ANSYS

supplied code checking tools
Enables the customer to define additional data
that is associated with their model and then
perform custom post processing
Custom definition of input data
Custom result definitions
Custom Solve & Post scripts (Python based)
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Design Assessment
- Assessment Types

ANSYS or User Defined

ANSYS Supplied Tools
FATJACK
Beam joint fatigue of
framed structures

BEAMCHECK
Member checks on
frame structures

Solution Combination only

User Defined
User can build/integrate own
load case combination and
code checking tool
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Design Assessment
- Model Setup

Design Assessment, Setup

Option A:
Define load case combination
Option B:
Define and Assign additional
Attributes
Required for advance postprocessing / code checking
Specify additional input required
to perform the code check
associated with each attribute
User defined custom results
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Design Assessment
- Solution Definition

Design Assessment, Solution

Option A:
Perform load case combination
Option B:
External script to perform load
case combinations
Carry out additional postprocess of results
i.e. Do a code check
Model, FEA results and attribute
information read from Design
Assessment
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Design Assessment
- Post-Processing

Design Assessment, Results

Option A:
Display standard results from a
load case combination
Option B:
Pass results from external postprocessing scripts back to
display in Design Assessment

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Design Assessment
- Additional Code Checking Products

ANSYS FATJACK
Beam joint fatigue assessment
New separate product
(also remains part of ASAS
Offshore)
Python scripts provided
ANSYS BEAMCHECK
Was available initially at 12.0
Python scripts provided
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FATJACK
Fatigue Result

Joint Unitary
Check for
BEAMCHECK

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Outlook
Hydrodynamics
Complete integration of AQWA in Workbench
Extended core capabilities as well as coupling with
other ANSYS and 3rd party tools
Structures
Modeling and analysis with ANSYS Structural
Mechanics products suited to both global structure and
detailed (equipment/component) analyses
Coupling with other ANSYS and 3rd party tools
Design Assessment enabling further application of
ANSYS developed code checking tools and user
custom capabilities (not limited to Offshore)
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ANSYS Mechanical Solutions

- Modeling
CAD interfacing and modeling tools
ANSYS DesignModeler
ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler
Extensive meshing capabilities
CAD Import to
DesignModeler

Meshing
Examples

SpaceClaim

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ANSYS Mechanical Solutions

- Structural Mechanics
Extensive Library of Material Models
Comprehensive Element Technology
Solids, Shells, Beams, Special (e.g.
Pipe, Elbow, Gasket, User Elements) Jacket Joint Stress Analysis
Library of joints
Advanced Numerical Methods for Linear
and Nonlinear Problems
Powerful Solver Capabilities
Direct, Iterative and Distributed Memory
What If? studies
Advanced Post-Processing including
Reporting
Solver Customizing and Scripting (APDL)
Rigid/Flexible
HPC (parallel)
Body Analysis

Rotor Dynamics

Riser Analysis

Courtesy DEI

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Wider ANSYS Capabilities

- Offshore Wind Turbine

Complex system
Full of Innovation

Rotor Sizing
and
Blade
Design
Acoustics
Transformer
Generator and
Site
Selection
Speed
Shaft Design
Wind Farm
Electric
Sensor
Configuration

Dynamic Operating
Conditions
High Cost of Failure

Machine
Power
Tower Design
Electronics
Supporting
Structure
Electromechanical
and FSI
Design
Components
Images are courtesy of REpower Systems AG
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