POSEIDON ND Tutorial

Contents
POSEIDON ND


POSEIDON ND Tutorial

1 Introduction 3
2 A Midship Section - from Concept to Sizing 6
2.1 Design Parameters and Concept Sketch 7
2.2 Principal Dimensions and Material 9
2.2.1 Input of the Principal Dimensions 9
2.2.2 Material definition 10
2.2.3 Storing the Project 11
2.3 Frame Table 12
2.3.1 Generation of a Frame Table 12
2.3.2 Changes in the Frame Table 14
2.4 The Wizards of POSEIDON 15
2.5 Modeling of Longitudinal Members 17
2.5.1 Definition of the Frame Table (Y and Z Dir) 17
2.5.2 Defi Geometry and Topology 18
2.5.3 Plates, Stiffeners and Holes of Longitudinal Members 23
2.5.4 Arrangement of Transverse Stiffeners on Longitudinal Members 36
2.5.5 Arr Transverse Girdersbers 38
2.6 Modeling of Transverse Members 40
2.6.1 Cells 40
2.6.2 Transverse Members 46
2.7 Design Criteria or Loads 53
2.7.1 Tanks 53
2.7.2 Design Criteria Stillwater Bending Moments and Shear Forces 57
2.8 Sizing of a Transverse Section 59
2.8.1 Sizing of all Members at Frame 154 in accordance with the GL Rules 59
2.9 Permissible Stillwater Values 62
2.9.1 Stresses for Deck and Bottom Structures 62
2.10 Assessment of the results of a Transverse Section 63
2.10.1 Correction of the Transverse Section 63
2.10.2 Duplicate calculations in the GL Rules program 66
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POSEIDON ND

3 Generation of a Further Transverse Section 68
3.1 New shell description at Frame 68 and 76 68
3.2 Automatically generated Frame Shapes ...