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Award-Winning Yacht Builder Relies on FEA Software PDF Print E-mail

Hodgdon-built Antonisa under sail at Maxi Worlds.  Photo by Tim Wright.

When approached to construct a custom-built 98' yacht designed by Fontaine Design Group, Michael McClain of Hodgdon Yachts, East Boothbay, Maine, relied on ALGOR FEA software to optimize existing vessel designs to save time, ensure safety, reduce hull weight and save money.

 
Wauquiez International Sailboat Design PDF Print E-mail

Wauquiez International Sailboat Design

Sailboat buyers want delivery as soon as possible and customization is the wave of the future.  Wauquiez International is responding by doing more development work digitally.

 
SIMA Shipbuilders Use ALGOR FEA to Design Dredging Barge for NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS Pipeline PDF Print E-mail

SIMA Peru S.A. designed and manufactured this steel barge with spud legs, named Leyla, which carried a 180-ton excavator to dredge an undersea canal in Pisco Bay off the Pacific coast of Loberia.  SIMA used ALGOR FEA to verify and optimize the barge design.  (Photograph courtesy of Pluspetrol Peru Corporation.)

When undersea piping was needed to complete a South American pipeline project that traverses the Amazon jungle and the Andes Mountains to the Pacific coast, ALGOR finite element analysis (FEA) software was chosen to help get the job done quickly and economically.

 
Advanced 3D Modeling Gives America’s Cup Yachts the Edge PDF Print E-mail

The Team Prada boat sitting on the dock in Auckland.

The Italian Team Prada challenge to wrest the America’s Cup from the Kiwis was blunted by the sailing skills of the New Zealand defender. However, behind the scenes an untold amount of design and development goes into building any yacht that is good enough to even reach to finals.

 
Shipbuilding Design and Manufacturing Solutions for the New Millennium PDF Print E-mail

Pro/ENGINEER Shipbuilding Solutions – a next generation platform for shipbuilding design and manufacturing from PTC.

Today's shipyards are under incredible competitive pressures to get it done, get it done right and get it done fast. New CAD/CAM tools help them meet their goals.

 


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