PipeLay > New PipeLay Features

Wood PLC is proud to announce the release of PipeLay Version 2022.1. This new version provides an improved hydrodynamic data importer, an improvement to the GUI, detailed software licensing options and our commitment to you during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Version 2022.1 release is our update of PipeLay this year (2021).

The main feature highlights of the latest version are summarised as follows:

•The Hydrodynamic Data Importer is a very helpful utility program from our software suite further enhanced with PipeLay Version 2022.1. It allows you to automatically import characteristic data relating to a floating body from a range of well-known hydrodynamic simulation packages. Hydrodynamic data is typically sourced externally from a radiation-diffraction program, and the importer aims to streamline the data transfer process, minimising both user effort and the potential for errors in data specification. For PipeLay Version 2022.1, the Hydrodynamic Data Importer has been further enhanced to support import of data from OrcaWave, in addition to WAMIT, ANSYS Aqwa and NEMOH.

oWhile the data relevant for PipeLay are the displacement RAOs, the Hydrodynamic Data Importer can also convert force RAOs in a similar manner and other floating body properties, such as:

▪Hydrodynamic Stiffness – used to model the effects of buoyancy on the floating body

▪Added Mass, Radiation Damping – used for wave radiation loads

▪Newman’s Quadratic Transfer Function – used to derive second-order wave drift loads.

•The manipulation of components in a PipeLay project has been enhanced, by enabling fast copy-paste functionality

•The documentation on our PipeLay-in-the-Cloud (SaaS) has been expanded as part of the Licensing Options

•Our Commitment to You during COVID-19