Development of Marine Concrete Structure Concept Modeling Application

Abstract

This thesis presents the development and implementation of a modeling application for various concepts of Marine Concrete Structures (MCS). The application is developed in cooperation with Aker Solutions, and aims to provide an efficient tool for modeling of different variants and designs of MCS at a conceptual stage in the design process. The modeling application is developed by applying Knowledge Based Engineering(KBE) to define standard components relevant for concepts of MCS. Definition of components and associated rules are based on engineering rules, best practices and reuse of design experience from previous projects regarding offshore platforms.The application was implemented by utilizing Adaptive Modeling Language (AML), providing necessary dynamic behavior to the concept models.

The report covers documentation of relevant structural components and MCS, detailed system design of the developed modeling application and an introduction to the modeling procedure. The report also accounts for potential improvements and extensions to the developed application. The resulting application enables efficient creation and modification of concept models based on intelligent building blocks. The implemented building blocks include automatic communication and embedded functionality, enabling a generic modeling environment. As a result, generated MCS models exhibit a dynamic and adaptive behavior necessary to efficiently produce the required output data in a design process.