Floating Systems
Floating Systems Design and Analysis Testing
For more than 35 years, Stress Engineering Services has been a leading provider of floating systems solutions. Our extensive industry experience, technical distinction, and advanced software programs uniquely position us to successfully optimize the performance, reliability, and safety of your floating system.
At the core of our floating system analytical capability is our proprietary in-house dynamic analysis program, RAMS (Rational Approach to Marine Systems). Unlike other analysis tools, it performs fully coupled dynamic analysis of floating production systems with the mooring, risers, and floating host platform all connected in a single model. The capability of RAMS – combined with our renowned expertise in testing, riser design/analysis, reliability, and materials – uniquely positions us to provide a comprehensive range of services.
Project Phases
- Concept Evaluation/Selection
- Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)
- Execution / Fabrication / Installation
Systems Design/Analysis
- Floating Hosts (Marine/Hydrodynamic, Structural)
- Monitoring Systems
- Moorings
- Risers (Production, Drilling, Water-injection, Export, Top-tensioned, Catenary)
- Riser Support Structures
- Tendons
- Tensioners
Analysis Capabilities
- Coupled Global
- Drive-off/Drift-off
- Dynamic Positioning/Station Keeping
- Engineering Criticality Assessment (ECA)
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Flow Induced Vibration (FIV)
- Frequency-domain Dynamics
- Hull Hydrodynamics (WAMIT)
- RAO Determination
- Riser Strength and Fatigue
- Seismic
- Signal Processing
- Stability and Ballast
- Structural Strength and Fatigue
- Time-domain Dynamics
- Vessel Motion
- Vortex-induced Vibration (VIV)
Services
- Component/Equipment Specification
- Fitness-for-Service Evaluations
- Lifetime and Short-term Instrumentation
- Third-party Verification
- Certified Verification Agent (CVA) Services
- Monitoring System Data Interpretation
- Mechanical and Thermal Laboratory Testing
- Vibration Measurement and Analysis
