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 Courtesy of Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam
of Octabuoy Concept
Courtesy of Moss Maritime AS 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
Offshore Wind Turbines
• Some example applications

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 post-
processing / 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 “post-
process” 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 post-
processing 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 FATJACK
Fatigue Result

Offshore)
– Python scripts provided Joint Unitary
Check for
• ANSYS BEAMCHECK BEAMCHECK

– Was available initially at 12.0

– Python scripts provided

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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 Rotor Dynamics

– 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 Riser Analysis

• 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
Courtesy DEI
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 Wider ANSYS Capabilities
- Offshore Wind Turbine

• Complex system

• Full of Innovation
Rotor Sizing
Bladeand • Dynamic Operating
Acoustics
Design Conditions
Transformer
Generator and
Site
SpeedSelection
Shaft Design
Wind Farm
Electric • High Cost of Failure
Sensor
Configuration
Machine
Power
Tower Design
Electronics
Supporting Structure
Electromechanical
and FSI
Design
Components
Images are courtesy of REpower Systems AG
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