SACS Plate Panel Check with ABS Buckling Guide

I use SACS v14 and I would like to verify the deck of a vessel with the SACS Plate Panel Check. I would like to consider the code ABS Buckling Guide mainly, but I am insterested also in the other two available API Bulletin 2V and DNV-RP-C201.

The deck is an large horizontal plate with a series of stiffeners of different shape and size. I imagine that the "Plate Panel Check" considers the Effective Width of the portion of deck on top each stiffener.

My question is if there is a tutorial and/or examples to how correcly model the deck of the ship. Do the stiffeners have to be introduced in the definition of Plate Group or shall I draw the stiffeners as members and connect each joint with a plate element?

Thank you in advance for your support.

Regards,

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