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Beam Cross-Sections in FEA: Section Properties, Orientation, and What Changes Strength Checks 

Beam Cross-Sections in FEA: Section Properties, Orientation, and What Changes Strength Checks 

Beam cross-sections matter in FEA because a beam element does not “know” your real 3D shape unless you define it correctly.…

Stress Calculations for Lifting Appliances: What Stress Components Matter and What Engineers Often Misread 

Stress Calculations for Lifting Appliances: What Stress Components Matter and What Engineers Often Misread 

Designing lifting appliances requires more than checking peak stresses against a yield limit. The governing question is usually fatigue: how stress varies…

Curved Plate Buckling per DNV RP-C202: Basics that Prevent Rework

Curved Plate Buckling per DNV RP-C202: Basics that Prevent Rework

Requirement to check curved plate buckling: cylindrical shells in monopiles, pressure hulls, pipelines, tanks, and curved hull segments. These components…

Analysis of Stiffener and Plate Buckling: Effective Width, Hand Calculations, and Eurocode Checks  

Analysis of Stiffener and Plate Buckling: Effective Width, Hand Calculations, and Eurocode Checks  

Large structures such as ships and offshore platforms are often made from extensive steel plates that can be relatively thin…

AS 4100:2020 Fatigue in SDC Verifier – How Section 11 Is Implemented

AS 4100:2020 Fatigue in SDC Verifier – How Section 11 Is Implemented

AS 4100:2020 treats fatigue in a very specific way: it assumes you know the stress ranges in your details, you…

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