• TIME HISTORY FATIGUE ANALYSIS IN SACS

    Ali Aidibi
    Ali Aidibi
    Hi, I would like to perform time history fatigue analysis. Is there any sample or procedure on how to perform the analysis in SACS? in case yes, please feel free to send it to my email. ( ali_aidibi_94@hotmail.com ) Many thanks in advance. Best…
    • 5 months ago
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  • Running Dynamic Analysis?

    Rafael Lara
    Rafael Lara
    Learn how to extract mode shapes of your offshore structure using Bentley SACS.
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    • 9 months ago
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  • Added mass for bouyancy in Dynamic Analysis

    Antooo
    Antooo
    Hi everyone, Could someone explain me how SACS consider bouyancy mass their dynamic analysis? In Dynpac tutorial (§2.3.1), it said "For structures immersed in fluid, the added or virtual mass and the mass of entrapped fluid ca nbe generated automatically…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • SACS - Rotational Mass Participation Factor

    Kasiphon Kurojjanawong
    Kasiphon Kurojjanawong
    Dear Bentley, Do we have any ways to get the Mass Participation Factor for Rotational Degree of Freedom? The mass participation report shown in Dynlst is only reported for Translational Degree of Freedom only. Please help to suggest Regards …
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    • over 2 years ago
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  • P-delta effects in wave response analysis

    Shabad Valiyarambath
    Shabad Valiyarambath
    Hi, Does the SACS wave response module able to consider the pdelta effects (using PD commands) when generating Base shear transfer function AND also when generating the equivalent static load for accurate stress recovery.
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Rhino Import to Maxsurf

    Alex Bishton
    Alex Bishton
    I have created this hull form comprised of NURB surfaces, and when I export it as a Maxsurf IGES file it appears in its entirety in Maxsurf. However, I can not add sections to it in the design grid and it will not calculate the hydrostatics. Without any…
    • over 4 years ago
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  • ERROR - 113 NOT A RECOGNIZABLE LOAD CASE

    Muhammad Ichsan
    Muhammad Ichsan
    Any body can help me to solve my fatigue running? I have check it many times, but I don't know what's wrong with my SACS file
    • over 4 years ago
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  • Vibration Analysis

    Mohd Affendi Jamaludin
    Mohd Affendi Jamaludin
    Hi, Currently im working on vibration analysis for a pump equipment support. Following is the step i did. Step 1, Modelling of beam supporting the pump with discrete joint where the interface bolt is attached to the structure. These interface…
    • over 4 years ago
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  • Question is the method of Tow fatigue analysis.

    KyungMan Kim 김경만
    KyungMan Kim 김경만
    Is it possible to perform tow fatigue analysis with combination of RAO of topside motion and topside dynamics? I want to combine dynamic of structure(local part) with RAO of topside motion. I didn't look forward to combine RAO with dynamic data. In case…
    • over 4 years ago
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  • How to import Craig-bampton super element in a dynamic SACS analyses ?

    Guillaume Luria
    Guillaume Luria
    I created a Craig-Bampton dynamic super element as per methodology described in "SACS Dynamic Superelement" document. I created a wave response file so as to have be able to create a reduced force vector. Spectral check is directly done in the listing…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Selection of Retained DOF nodes

    Aaron Greene
    Aaron Greene
    I have read through the Dynpac Manual Section 2.1 on Retained Degrees of Freedom. I understand that Dynpac uses a set of master (retained) degrees of freedom, selected by the user, to extract the Eigen values (periods) and Eigen vectors (mode shapes)…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Can someone help to explain the DAF analysis in SACS?

    shawn
    shawn
    Dear friends and bentley Colleagues I'm confused on the DAF calculation... We can use the DAF to get the dynamic response from the static analysis result, am i right? And I noticed that SNAME has a complicated procedure for DAF analysis. Surely…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Problem on mass modeling method in SACS for dynamic analysis

    Shawn
    Shawn
    Hi I'm running the dynamic analysis... However, I just found that some additional "mass" in the model were modeled as the "Load".. It's ok for static analsyis. But for dynamic analsyis, can we simply convert or define these "loads" as mass input?…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Dynpac module (to estimate natural period) & Gap elements with initial gap

    Shabad Valiyarambath
    Shabad Valiyarambath
    Can Dynpac module (to estimate natural period) capture the initial gap of say 50mm incorporated in the model.. any thoughts..? or is it only limited to the static runs. Thanks
    • over 5 years ago
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  • How to generate a wave timeseries (Jonswap) in Sacs?

    Wout Luites
    Wout Luites
    Dear All, Can somebody help me with creating and analysing a random wave signal from a JONSWAP spectrum in SACS. For this project a WTG foundation is to be designed. We would like to investigateif SACS is the software to be used for this. Preferably…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • Selecting modes with mode number higher than 100 for steady state deterministic wave analysis

    Eduard Hendriksen
    Eduard Hendriksen
    Good day, I am trying to determine the steady state response of a large model loaded by waves and current. Due to the size of the structure and the number of dofs to be considered for dynamic analysis, the number of structural eigenmodes is far…
    • over 5 years ago
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