Take the Arctic engineering further

The presence of ice complicates the design of offshore structures and TechnipFMC, together with its partners Cervval (a specialist software company in Brittany, France) and Bureau Veritas (BV) has developed an ice- modelling simulation program. The simulator is able to predict the flow of ice around both fixed and floating structures and calculate the ice-loadings on these platforms. The program allows arctic substructures concept design to be optimised, by minimizing ice loadings and ice rubble build-up, prior to final design verification in an ice test basin.

Key Software Features

• Ice-MAS has been developed since 2012 by TechnipFMC, Cervval and BV.
• It simulates the flow of ice around any kind of fixed or floating platform and calculates the applied ice loads, considering ice failure due to bending, crushing or a combination both, with rubble accumulation above and below the ice sheet.
• It simulates iceberg interaction and calculate impact load on any kind of fixed or floating platform.
• Ice-MAS is able to cope with the complexity of interaction between the structure, the ice sheet and the fragments including collision with rubble particles.
• Ridge can be simulated as part of the ice sheet and interacting with the platform.
• The multi structure architecture allows to retrieve the ice loadings on individual part of the platform (i.e. each leg of a platform).
• Ice-MAS allows structures optimization, by minimizing ice loadings & ice rubble build-up, prior to final verification in an ice test basin.

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