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The challenges of designinghigh-speed marine vessels

Located in Tasmania, Australia,Revolution Design provides itsclients with innovative designservices for all types oflightweight marine vehicles, aswell as small to larger vessels,that use aluminum and steel in

their construction. The companyis especially well known fordesigning high-speed,lightweight catamarans.

Revolution Designs team ofnaval architects, engineers anddesigners frequently worktogether with its clients (whoinclude shipbuilders, shipyardsand other marine companies) from concept through to research and development. Revolution Designprovides a variety of services for developing and refining marine vessels, including structural design ananalysis, driveline technical specification and layout, naval architecture services and a complete set ofdrafting and design services.

Revolution Design is particularly well known for designing wave-piercing catamarans built by Incat,one of the worlds premier builders of high-speed vessels used by commercial businesses and militaryservices around the globe. Revolution Design is famous for creating the 96-meter wave-piercer design,which became the first fast ferry in the world able to carry its own weight in payload. To achieve thismilestone, the company had to understand and carefully assess the vessels technical requirements,review and fully evaluate data from earlier vessels, design and optimize the new vessel, and rigorouslytest and analyze the proposed designs structural elements.

Critical juncture for change

Given the demands of the high-speed marine market and the desire to significantly improve its currentprocess, Revolution Design was highly motivated to adopt product development technology thatenables the companys design team to minimize turnaround, from concept to delivery.

Business challengesAccelerate productdevelopment turnaround

Increase productionefficiency

Improve regulatorycompliance and designapproval process

Keys to success

Change design analysisand optimization fromoutsourced culture toin-house process

Leverage Femap with NXNastran to analyze vesseldesign options and improvethe buildability of a newvessel design to reducebuild hours

Deliver design drawingsfaster to marine yards

Results

Significantly reducedproduct development costsby cutting the use ofoutside contractors

Speeded up designturnaround, while deliveringhigher quality designs

Improved process formeeting stringent industrystandards

Utilizing upgrade path tomore advanced analysis

capabilities

Winning new contracts

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High-speed analysis tools yield some of the world

finest lightweight marine vesselsFemap with NX Nastran enables Revolution Design to accelerate product development

turnaround, streamline compliance with industry standards and capture new business

REVOLUTION DESIGN

ShipbuildingFEMAP withNX NASTRAN

Image courtesy of LD Lines.

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In addition, RevolutionDesign selected EnDuraSim,a Siemens PLM SoftwareSolution Partner, becauseof EnDuraSims analysisknowledge, expertise,professional engineeringsupport and training

capabilities.

To ease Revolution Designstransition to these enhancedcapabilities, existing MSCNastran files were directlyread by Femap with NXNastran. Femap arrangedthese files according tothe names used in Patran(the MSC software that thecompany had previously been using for finite element analysis pre- and postprocessing). Since thetransition, Revolution Design has been performing all new analysis modeling in Femap with finalanalysis in NX Nastran.

Built-in standards, outstanding results

Femap with NX Nastran has significantly improved the companys overall ability to turn aroundnew vessel designs for its clients. The companys design team is now able to work with embedded clasrules, which enable the systematic building of higher standards into the product development processOur design team is taking advantage of and realizing great value with advanced modeling andanalysis functionality, says Davidson.

In 2010, Revolution Design expanded the capabilities within its Femap with NX Nastran environmentby adding the softwares Dynamics option, which enables designers to calculate a products forceddynamic response to inputs, such as loads or motion that vary with time and frequency.

Davidson concludes, With trusted and strong CAE solution partners, we can concentrate on high-spee

design/analysis, streamlined compliance with industry standards and deliver on expectations. Businessis good and growing.

Solutions/Services

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Clients primarybusiness

Revolution Design workswith shipbuilders, shipyardsand other companies todesign and developlightweight, high-speedaluminum marine vessels.www.revolutiondesign.com.au

www.incat.com.au

Client location

TasmaniaAustralia

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