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Offshore Engineering Applications

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FPSO Structural Assessment

The ABS Eagle FPSO software is used for design and classing ship-type Floating Production Installations (FPI), according to ABS Rules for Building and Classing Floating Production Installations.

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Offshore

Mobile Offshore Unit Structural Assessment

ABS Eagle OSAP software assists designers of offshore drilling and production installations such as semisubmersibles, TLPs and spars based on requirements from ABS Rules for Building and Classing Mobile Offshore Units.

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Offshore

Floating Offshore Liquefied Gas Terminal Structural Assessment

ABS Eagle FLGT is the ABS developed software used for ship-type floating LNG structural assessment, according to the ABS Guide for Building and Classing Floating Offshore Liquefied Gas Terminals (FLGT).

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Drillships Hull Structural Assessment

ABS Eagle Drillship is the ABS developed software used for the design and classing of drillships structural analysis, according to the ABS Guide for Building and Classing Drillships - Hull Structural Design and Analysis.

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Dynamic Loading and Spectral Fatigue Analysis for Offshore

ABS DLA /SFA-FOS is a first principles-based structural analysis software according to ABS Guide for Dynamic Loading Approach for Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Installations and Guide for Spectral-Based Fatigue Analysis for Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Installations.

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Marine and Offshore

Hull Girder Section Geometry and Torsion Properties

ABS HGSA software is used to calculate steel vessel’s gross hull girder section geometry and torsion properties, which can be used in connection with the other ABS software to evaluate the vessel’s design based on criteria as per ABS’ Rules. HGSA can be used for any types of the vessel.

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Marine and Offshore

CAD Data Conversion to ABS Software

The ABS UDM Utility tool is a software that consists of import / export conversion utilities for ABS structural assessment software that will facilitate exchange of data between the ABS software and third-party CAD modelers like NAPA Steel to improve efficiency of data entry.

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Marine and Offshore

Equipment and System Verification

The ABS WebCalc Machinery software is an easy-to-use tool that allows shipyards, designers, and equipment manufacturers to verify compliance with the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Marine Vessels and the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Mobile Offshore Units.

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Stability Evaluation for Offshore Structures

HECSTAB is a software enabling users to simply create multiple models of offshore assets and quickly analyze the stability impact of design changes. It is also integrated with ABS Wind software. This software is developed by Herbert-ABS Software Solutions, LLC

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