Key Features

•Powerful static and dynamic analytical capabilities, allowing accurate and realistic modelling

•Advanced graphical model builder allows complex models to be built quickly

•Dedicated functions for parameterising the various aspects of an installation model across a series of analysis load cases

•Automated mesh generation, analysis batches and results post-processing

•Automated optimization of lay configurations to achieve user-specified installation criteria, including pipeline tension, stress/strain, departure angle, tip separation and much more

•Finite element engine based on the industry-leading time domain offshore analysis software Flexcom, backed by over 30 years of experience

•Linear and non-linear material properties

•Rigid and elastic seabed contact models with anisotropic Coulomb friction, trench modelling and flat, sloping or arbitrary seabed profiles

•A range of options for modelling rollerbox support contact with additional optimization of support elevations to achieve specified strain limits

•Realistic Pipe-In-Pipe and Pipe-On-Pipe models

•Fixed and floating stinger capabilities with a variety of definition options

•Optimum buoyancy calculation for floating stinger sections so as to achieve desired section angles

•Coating stiffness modelling with capturing of field joint concentrations and coating slippage

•Includes a detailed in-line structure model for PLETs, PLEMs, ITAs, etc.

•Tapered stress joint component to model conical or tapered joints along a pipeline

•Active line length adjustment to model installation scenarios in a continuous fashion

•Supports a variety of tensioner definitions

•Fatigue analysis module for determining weld installation damage and stress range histograms

•Allows numerous outputs including 3D animations, plots, tabulated parameters and summary results

•Integrates DNV and API local buckling checks

•Excel™ Add-In to directly access analysis databases and to calculate user specific results

•Web-based licensing

•PipeLay-in-the-Cloud (SaaS)