Marine alliance unites design and analysis

A ShipConstructor Software product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 12, 2006

Martec has formed a strategic alliance with ShipConstructor Software to combine the capabilities of their software products for the marine industry.

Martec, the developer of the Trident suite of structural analysis and seakeeping software, has formed a strategic alliance with ShipConstructor Software to combine the capabilities of their software products for the marine industry.

The ShipConstructor user community will soon be able to easily conduct detailed finite element stress, hydrodynamic and other specialised analysis in Trident, directly from existing ShipConstructor models.

The combined ShipConstructor and Trident system will create a powerful, integrated solution for 3D modelling, design and analysis of commercial and naval vessels.

"Martec's arsenal of analysis software specifically designed for ship structures is an excellent complement to ShipConstructor's 3D product modelling and production planning software", commented Darren Larkins, Chief Software Architect at ShipConstructor Software.

Leading ship designers, owners and operators are seeking software tools that extend ship modelling applications beyond design and construction to include complete lifecycle management of the vessel.

Doing so will eliminate the time consuming and costly production of separate analysis models required as input to the growing number of lifecycle maintenance analysis tools.

This offers significant savings in operation and maintenance costs as well as improved understanding and confidence in vessel safety.

"With our combined solution, ship designers and naval architects will no longer need to rebuild models of their vessel to conduct engineering analysis", said David Brennan, Manager of Martec's Trident Group.

"Users of the integrated Trident-ShipConstructor system will save valuable time during the initial design of a vessel and throughout its lifecycle".

Martec has joined the ShipConstructor Developer Network (SCDN) programme, which provides technical resources and support for integrating with ShipConstructor.