Plate Buckling check according to the ABS 2014 (Guide for Building and Classing – Floating Production Installations, published July 2014 by American Bureau of Shipping) is performed on a part of the ship. The plates with dimensions are recognized automatically with the help of the Panel Finder tool.
What we will reveal in this tutorial:
- A part of a plate model of the ship has been used as a start FEM model.
- Load Sets and Load Group (Envelope) are created.
- We will use Panel Finder Tool for plates recognition.
- Plate Buckling tables and plots.
- Reporting: as a result we will prepare and generate the final report on a check.