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About Aker Yards Marine > Resources
Aker Yards Marine maintains
modern offices in both Vancouver B.C.
and Houston, TX.
AYM
employs a wide variety of talented staff, whose combination
of educational background and previous working experience in
all aspects of the marine industry, are able to provide innovative
and effective solutions to our clients' demands.
The company currently produces the vast majority
of its design work using CAD techniques.
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AutoCAD is used for
structural, piping schematic, arrangement and outfit
drawings, with Autoplant used extensively for 3D
piping modeling & layout and isometric drawings.
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Rhinoceros 3D, a
very powerful Nurbs modeler being used as a general
modeler for FEA and
product visualization.
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ShipConstructor
handles all 3D modeling aspects of ship design,
including hull-fairing, lofting, structure, equipment,
piping, penetrations, and HVAC. The generation of
production drawings and reports is fully integrated
with build strategy planning, plate nesting, profile
nesting, assembly drawing and spool drawing
generation, as well as NC-coding. |
For engineering tasks, Aker Yards Marine
utilizes PC based software packages including:
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An advanced surface
modeling program for hull development.
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AutoShip
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A fully integrated
hull modeling and analysis software suite.
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NavCad
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A resistance and
powering analysis program.
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A
naval architecture package for hydrostatics, stability
and longitudinal strength calculations. |
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ShipmoPC
by BMT
Fleet Technology
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A sea keeping analysis
program.
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ShipFlow,
A special purpose software for investigating hydrodynamic
properties.
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Mermaid
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A marine propulsion
and control simulation package.
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ShaftKit
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A shaft vibration
and alignment calculations program.
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PipeFlow
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A pipe loss calculation
program.
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NEi
Nastran, a powerful, general purpose finite
element analysis tool with an integrated graphical
user interface and model Editor which is used to
analyze linear and nonlinear stress, dynamics, and
heat transfer characteristics of structures and
mechanical components.f |
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Structural design
analysis program
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Aker Yards Marine is
at the apex of a large body of technical resources available
through its parent organization, the Aker
Yards ASA in Europe. Aker Yards ASA, which is one of
the worlds leading shipbuilders also owns companies which produce
a wide range of ship's equipment. |
