SACS Wind Turbine

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SACS Wind Turbine analysis software for fixed foundations

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Deliver safe, cost-effective fixed offshore wind farm structures?

SACS Wind Turbine is offshore fixed foundation wind turbine analysis software that helps you explore design alternatives, predict performance, and deliver safe, cost-effective offshore wind farm structures.

The capabilities of SACS Offshore Structure Ultimate are combined with third party aeroelastic solvers to subject the wind turbine foundation to wave, wind, and mechanical loading. It makes it easy to predict both fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and nonlinear foundation.

SACS Wind Turbine Capabilities

Ultimate Static Offshore Package

Capabilities for offshore jackets, wharfs, and dolphin structures
Interactive graphics modeled with advanced 3D capabilities and interactive graphics post processor, seastate, joint can, pile, combine, gap, tow, and LDF large deflection
Automatic model generation, beam and finite element capability, steel code check and redesign, environmental load generation, tubular connection check, single pile/soil interaction, inertia and moving load generation, tension/compression nonlinear elements with initial gap, load case combination, linear large deflection analysis, and full output report and plotting capabilities

Plastic Nonlinear Collapse Advanced

Nonlinear foundation, and nonlinear and plastic analysis capabilities
Plastic analysis includes pushover, ship impact, and blast nonlinear analysis
Collapse results viewer with graphical step navigation along the loading-time chart

Pile-soil Interaction

PSI nonlinear soil/pile/structure interaction program module. Includes interface to PLAXIS Monopile Designer for large diameter monopile analysis in accordance with the PISA2 approach

Advanced Dynamic Fatigue Package

Contains the modules required to perform any dynamic deterministic, time history, or spectral fatigue analysis

Fatigue Life Evaluation and Redesign

Spectral, time history, and deterministic fatigue analysis
Cyclic stress range calculation procedures include wave search, curve fit, and interpolation
SCF calculations recommended by API (including 21st ed. supplements), HSE, DNV, DS449, and Norsok Codes
Automatic redesign
API (including 21st ed. supplements), AWS, HSE, and Norsok thickness dependent recommended S-N curves
Multiple run damage accumulation
Pierson-Moskowitz, JONSWAP, Ochi-Hubble double peak, simplified double peek, and user-defined spectra
Automated or user-specified connection details
Pile fatigue analysis
Wave spectra creation from scatter diagram
Paris equation used to predict crack growth rate due to cyclic stresses
Load path dependent joint classifications
Includes wave spreading effects
Reservoir (rain flow) cycle counting method
ISO 19902