Engineering Services

CEVEC is also an engineering partner for your company and others working in the shipbuilding, offshore oil & gas, renewable energy, yachting and maritime sectors.

These sectors like most other sectors are being put more and more under pressure to shorten delivery times of the end product. CEVEC offers fast and flexible engineering solutions in all fields of naval architecture, which can help your company to speed up the engineering process and hence shorten delivery time.

CEVECs experience includes the engineering of equipment to be used in a marine environment e.g. calculations (3D FEA) and solution of problems involving floating cranes, inland-water vessels, ocean-going vessels, FPSO’s, jack-up platforms, pontoons, barges, lock gates and link spans, all types of yachts, windturbines and foundations.

Amongst the design services that CEVEC can provide, the following can be included:

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  1. Determination of scantlings for vessels and floating objects that fall under the major international classification societies, namely:
    • Det Norske Veritas.Germanischer Lloyd;
    • Lloyd’s Register;
    • Bureau Veritas;
    • American Bureau of Shipping;
    • China Classification Society;
  2. Global strength calculations;
  3. Local strength calculations;
  4. 3D Finite Element Analyses (with the aid of ANSYS, FEMAP, STAAD.Pro, SACS etc.);
  5. Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics of vessels and floating objects including:
    • Trim and stability calculations according to Class and national regulations;
    • Resistance and propulsion;
    • Launching calculations;
    • Inclining tests according Class and national regulations;
    • Load out;
    • Transport analyses;
  6. Installation analyses (cable- and pipe lay with the aid of AQWA, Orcaflex etc);
  7. Mooring analyses (with the aid of AQWA, Orcaflex etc);
  8. Drafting of both general construction and workshop drawings
  9. Technical advise and “second opinions“;

Completion of CEVECs services is followed by a detailed report with photographs if necessary and/or applicable. The completed report is presented to the customer who can relay necessary information within his organization. The primary objective of this review is to discuss problems encountered, if any, and to present recommendations and/or amendments in procedures, where necessary, for future services.