Conceptual Phase

• Feasibility studies (stability, longitudinal strength etc.)
• Hull form design
• Risk assessment, FMEA studies, Safe Return to Port
• Alternative design, evacuation simulation
• Underwater shock simulation

Tendering Phase

• General arrangement plan review (strength, vibration, noise etc.)
• Specification review

Basic & Detailed Design Phase

• Maneuvering and performance prediction
• Optimisation of main and auxiliary machinery and electrical systems
• Design load prediction, sea keeping simulation, sloshing simulation
• Hull form optimisation, ventilation simulation, smoke & fire propagation analysis
• Global strength analysis, local strength analysis, fatigue assessment
• Vibration prediction, local vibration analysis, shaft vibration analysis
• Noise prediction, structure borne noise analysis, underwater noise analysis
• Collision assessment, buckling analysis, thermal analysis
• Shock analysis (structure, machinery, equipment)
• Shaft alignment calculation
• Piping analysis, analysis of pressure vessels & gas tanks

Construction Phase, Sea Trials / Delivery

• Impact & exciter vibration tests, machinery noise measurements
• Acceptance tests: power, speed, manoeuvring, fuel consumption etc.
• Noise & vibration survey