SACS Wind Turbine
SACS Wind Turbine analysis software for fixed foundations
- Design offshore wind turbines
- Analyze wave and wind loading
- Perform coupled or uncoupled analysis
- Predict stress cycles with fatigue analysis
- Ensure offshore code compliance
About this software subscription: This Virtuoso Subscription includes a 12-month practitioner license of this software, that comes with Keys (credits) to unlock training and services.
Deliver safe, cost-effective fixed offshore wind farm structures
SACS Wind Turbine is offshore fixed foundation wind turbine analysis software that helps you explore design alternatives, predict performance, and deliver safe, cost-effective offshore wind farm structures.
The capabilities of SACS Offshore Structure Ultimate are combined with third party aeroelastic solvers to subject the wind turbine foundation to wave, wind, and mechanical loading. It makes it easy to predict both fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and nonlinear foundation.
SACS Wind Turbine Capabilities
Ultimate Static Offshore Package
- Capabilities for offshore jackets, wharfs, and dolphin structures
- Interactive graphics modeled with advanced 3D capabilities and interactive graphics post processor, seastate, joint can, pile, combine, gap, tow, and LDF large deflection
- Automatic model generation, beam and finite element capability, steel code check and redesign, environmental load generation, tubular connection check, single pile/soil interaction, inertia and moving load generation, tension/compression nonlinear elements with initial gap, load case combination, linear large deflection analysis, and full output report and plotting capabilities
Plastic Nonlinear Collapse Advanced
- Nonlinear foundation, and nonlinear and plastic analysis capabilities
- Plastic analysis includes pushover, ship impact, and blast nonlinear analysis
- Collapse results viewer with graphical step navigation along the loading-time chart
Pile-soil Interaction
PSI nonlinear soil/pile/structure interaction program module. Includes interface to PLAXIS Monopile Designer for large diameter monopile analysis in accordance with the PISA2 approach
Advanced Dynamic Fatigue Package
Contains the modules required to perform any dynamic deterministic, time history, or spectral fatigue analysis
Fatigue Life Evaluation and Redesign
- Spectral, time history, and deterministic fatigue analysis
- Cyclic stress range calculation procedures include wave search, curve fit, and interpolation
- SCF calculations recommended by API (including 21st ed. supplements), HSE, DNV, DS449, and Norsok Codes
- Automatic redesign
- API (including 21st ed. supplements), AWS, HSE, and Norsok thickness dependent recommended S-N curves
- Multiple run damage accumulation
- Pierson-Moskowitz, JONSWAP, Ochi-Hubble double peak, simplified double peek, and user-defined spectra
- Automated or user-specified connection details
- Pile fatigue analysis
- Wave spectra creation from scatter diagram
- Paris equation used to predict crack growth rate due to cyclic stresses
- Load path dependent joint classifications
- Includes wave spreading effects
- Reservoir (rain flow) cycle counting method
- ISO 19902
Turbine Manufacturer Interfaces
Siemens, MHI Vestas via Craig Bampton dynamic superelement
MINIMUM: 4GB RAM. Performance is dependent on model size and resources available.
RECOMMENDED: Win 10, 11. 8GB RAM. 10GB of free disk space. DirectX10 and Open GL
BROWSER COMPATIBILITY: Edge, Chrome
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